Gallery: Join Archaeologists as They Unearth Denmark’s Lost Castles

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    Esben Schlosser Mauritsen is one of the leading experts in the field of drone archaeology in Denmark. Here, he sends a drone up to take hundreds of photos of the terrain below.
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    Archaeologist Jesper Hjermind sits through dirt from molehills. He’s looking for tiny bits of brick which might indicate a castle’s location. Such research helps archaeologists figure out where to dig.
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    A detail of one of the excavation sites.
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    Mogens Greve is a researcher at the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, where geologists are working with archaeologists to develop and refine electromagnetic measurement instruments for archaeological surveys. Greve uses these tools to confirm the presence of castles.
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    Pieces of brick found at an excavation site.
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    Land surveyor Henrik Norgaard drags an electromagnetic measuring device behind his four wheeler. The device is used to detect what kind of structures exist beneath the surface.
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    Lis Olesen is an aerial archaeologist. She photographs the ground from a Cessna, looking for marks that could reveal the presence of a past structure.
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    Aerial image of Sallingholm Castle photographed by a drone.
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    A 3-D heat map of Sallingholm Castle created from the drone aerials.
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    Archaeologist Lars Krants stands in an excavation ditch at Fensten. Nondestructive archaeologist methods provided strong evidence for a castle at the site, but digging provides the final proof.
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    Amateur archaeologists discovered some 50 metal objects in a field in Fenston, Denmark, dating back to medieval times.
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    Dendrochronologist Inger Laigaard works in her lab at Aarhus University, dating wood samples sent in from the excavation sites.
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    Pollen photographed with a microscope.
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    Renée Enevold examines a soil sample with centuries-old pollen at the lab. The pollen can suggest what kind of vegetation once existed in the area.
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    Bone dice found at an excavation.
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