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The Ravning Bridge (Danish: ''Ravningbroen'') was a former bridge across the meadows of Ravning Enge at Vejle River, 10 km south of Jellinge in Denmark. The Ravning Bridge is thought to have been built in the Viking Age around 980 AD, ordered by King Harald Bluetooth, at the same time as the large scale construction projects of the Viking ring castles. As these fortresses, the Ravning Bridge was also only in use for a very few years. The wooden bridge was 5 metres broad and almost 760 metres long. It was not until the construction of the Little Belt Bridge in 1935, that a longer bridge was built in Denmark. The name is also seen spelled Ravninge Bridge (Danish: ''Ravningebroen''). == Discovery == Wooden remains of the Ravning Bridge was discovered in 1934, 1953 and 1959 during some draining projects, but it was not until 1972, that a professional arhaeological excavation was launched at the site, when a landowner delivered samples from it for a carbon-14 dating at the Nationalmuseet. The expedition discovered that the large buried supporting oakwood poles of the former bridge was still intact and they also found remains of an old road on the north side of the bridge as well as traces of an old hollow way in the woodland hills surrounding the meadows. Dendrochronology on woodsamples from the bridge remains has dated it to soon after 980 AD, but this dating has been questioned.〔(Claudia Baittinger: Præliminær dendrokronologisk undersøgelse II af træprøver fra Ravning Enge, NNU rapport nr. 3, 2009 ) 〕〔(Kjeld Christensen: Ravning-broens alder. En af Danmarks sikreste dendrokronologiske dateringer? I: Kuml 2003. s. 213-226. ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ravninge Bridge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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