4. Rural economy
Medieval Visby and Gotland - The History and Archaeology of a Baltic Metropolis in its Context - Anders Andrén
Anders Andrén
Stockholm University
Description
The chapter provides a general overview of the rural economy, including animal husbandry, farming, producation of high quality tar, stone quarring, and fishing. Remains of most parts of the rural economy are preserved, such as 150 medieval meadows with pollarded trees, several medieval quarries, many medieval productions sites of tar and some medieval fishing habours. Apart from agriculture, the rural economy included handicraft and trade as well. Gotlandic baptismal fonts have been found all over northern Europe.