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Abstract: The Viking Ship Museum has been involved in the experimental archaeological reconstruction of boat and ship finds for over thirty years. During this time, a multi-disciplinary research environment has developed around the Museum boatyard, striving towards collaboration between craft specialists, sailors and academics. Built from 1982-84, the Skuldelev 3 reconstruction, Roar Ege, was the Museum’s first Viking ship reconstruction. The documentation carried out during that project laid the foundation for an internal archive of experimental archaeological documentation that has grown with each new reconstruction project. The focus of this documentation has shifted over the years. When constructing Roar Ege, the building team were very much focused on ‘re-discovering’ Viking Age ship-building techniques. With each subsequent build, the boatbuilders’ fluency in these techniques increased, eventually becoming second nature: and so, documentation focused more on the chronological stages of building projects rather than the thought process and immaterial actions involved in each step. In 2016, Roar Ege was retired on land, and in 2017, work began on a new reconstruction of Skuldelev 3, creating an opportunity to reflect on how we document and why. This paper will present the development of the documentation methods and approaches used today at the Viking Ship Museum boatyard from the perspective of both the boatbuilder and archaeologist. It will detail past successes and – perhaps more importantly – failures, while also exploring the inherent connection between experimental archaeological reconstruction and the intangible cultural heritage of traditional wooden boatbuilding.
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