Sister Buildings

Sometimes two buildings, hundreds of kilometers apart, turn out to share something: their timber was cut from the same forest region in the same few years — likely the same felling, maybe even the same shipment. These are the connections that survive by accident, in the wood itself.

Uppland · 1470 ADSmåland · 1700 ADSmåland · 1795 ADSmåland · 1835 ADSkåne · 1460 ADSkåne · 1485 ADSmåland · 1645 ADSkåne · 1220 ADÖstergötland · 1820 ADGotland · 1215 ADMälardalen/Stockholms skärgård · 1755 ADÖstergötland · 1740 ADÖstra Svealand · 1695 AD

Timber from Uppland, around 1470 AD

2 buildings · up to 515 km away

Glimmingehus

1472 AD · Pine

515 km from Uppland

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Linköpings slott

1472 AD · Pine

185 km from Uppland

Photo: This photo (C) Lars Aronsson · Wikimedia Commons · CC SA 1.0