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Burnt Mound Near the Sea

Category: Archaeology

The fact that the place is still an island means that it was way, way out 2600 years ago.

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A Touch of Pitted Ware

Category: Archaeology

I found knapped quartz and basalt and granite (!) and a lot of small potsherds, one of which has the Pitted Ware culture's signature pits and comb-stamp decoration.

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Digging at the Finnestorp War Booty Sacrificial Site

Category: Archaeology

Silted-up lakes whose anaerobic peat deposits are full of vandalised military equipment taken from unfortunate invading armies of the Iron Age...

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Sättuna Fieldwork Report On-Line

Category: Archaeology

Check it out if you're into the Late Mesolithic!

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North Shore Battlefield

Category: Archaeology

I'm particularly interested in the pre-battle finds that are starting to accumulate.

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Sättuna Fieldwork Report Nearing Completion

Category: Archaeology

Finds and radiocarbon dates allow us to identify five phases on-site, two of them corresponding to the dates of the metal detector finds that occasioned the excavations.

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Sättuna Radiocarbon

Category: Archaeology

The people on this site avoided burying stuff that keeps, not just during one era, but over repeated use phases covering thousands of years. Drat.

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Djurhamn 2008 Fieldwork Report On-Line

Category: Archaeology

The results were actually a bit of a let-down after the sword I found in '07.

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Fighter Plane Ammo

Category: Archaeology

Cartridges are large chunks of brass, which would make them obtrusive even if they were just spheres.

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Sättuna Fieldwork Summary

Category: Archaeology

The dig closes eight days earlier than planned.

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Second-Worst Possible Fieldwork Result

Category: Archaeology

Like winning a year's supply of something you have absolutely no use for and cannot sell.

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Stripping a Field

Category: Archaeology

We finished machining away the ploughsoil today, and I reckon we've uncovered about 800 square meters. I have a permit for 1200 sqm, but I stopped here. The landowner doesn't want us to expand in the most interesting direction...

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Sectioning Anonymous Pits Again

Category: Archaeology

We may be dealing with traces of late-pre-Roman activity.

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Digging Starts at Sättuna

Category: Archaeology

Every little bit has fallen into place as planned.

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Queen Christina's Quarter Coin Again

Category: Archaeology

In their day they were the largest issue yet in the history of Sweden.

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33 Test Pits

Category: Archaeology

Today we dug and sieved our 33rd and last square-meter test pit at Djurhamn, and I took the gear back to the County Museum's stores. Unless a colleague with better early-modern pottery skillz than mine provides any surprises, it seems...

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Test Pitting at Djurhamn

Category: Archaeology

I wish one of those pits would strike a 16th century midden!

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More Djurhamn Tree House Ruins

Category: Archaeology

One tree house had an interesting piece of furniture: a gynaecologist's examination chair!?

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Continued Surveying at Djurhamn

Category: Archaeology

Working in the woods was weird because of the outlandish sounds from a colony of grey herons.

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Early Neolithic Golf Course

Category: Archaeology

Larsson borrowed a horse trailer from a relative and crammed the entire Skateholm fieldwork equipment into it.

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Mesolithic Seal Hunters On a Hilltop Near You

Category: Archaeology

Amazing to find all this insanely old material in a tract of completely nondescript woodland.

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Sacred Field of the Shining One

Category: Archaeology

Ullr is one of the old gods that were semi-forgotten in Snorri's day.

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Bits and Bobs

Category: Archaeology

Yesterday I did 5.5 more man-hours of metal detecting at the "Hall of Odin" site in Västmanland with Per Vikstrand. No prehistoric finds: just a piece of a 15/16/17th century brass cooking pot. Bob Lind's craziness is once more repeated...

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Sunny Fieldwork in Uppland

Category: Archaeology

The St. Olaf site was perfect for metal detecting today, recently harrowed and almost completely without vegetation.

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Investigating the Field of Saint Olaf

Category: Archaeology

The step from a hammer-wielding pagan god to an axe-holding Viking saint may not have been very great.

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Fieldwork in Kimstad and Kaga

Category: Archaeology

Frag of a brooch decorated with embossed silver foil. 5th century. Photograph Tobias Bondesson. Our site in Kimstad parish looked even better than I'd thought. This was one of many cases where I've come swooping in to sites that...

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Fieldwork in Tingstad and Östra Husby

Category: Archaeology

Frag of a lion-shaped badge with a rivet used to fix it to some surface. Photograph Tobias Bondesson. Another day of fruitful fieldwork, with friendly landowners and pretty good weather. We started out with 20 man-hours in the fields...

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Fieldwork in Hov and Vretakloster

Category: Archaeology

Polyhedrical weight. 9/10th century. Photograph Tobias Bondesson. (Martin here, posting from the hostel of Norsholm on the Göta canal, using my handheld and the cell phone network. To get the post on-line, my dear scibling Janet has kindly agreed...

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Djurhamn Fieldwork Mopup

Category: Archaeology

Rune Ehrsson brought a fine piece of Late Medieval or Early Modern pottery to show us.

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Djurhamn Sword Excavated

Category: Archaeology

I've spent the day getting the Djurhamn sword out of the ground.

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Six New Finds from Kaga

Category: Archaeology

We seem to be dealing with a magnate's farm established about AD 500.

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Magnetometry in Kaga

Category: Archaeology

The lower sensors pick up the planet's magnetic field plus any subsoil anomalies, while the upper sensors only get the planet's field.

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Harbour of the Sheaf Kings

Category: Archaeology

Djurhamn was its era's equivalent of a major airport.

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A Forest Fire on the Outermost Isles

Category: Archaeology

Ancient lithics scatters were everywhere, peeping out of the scorched earth.

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Saxophone Detector

Category: Archaeology

The others said I sounded like an irate wasp.

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Battle of Baggensstäket

Category: Archaeology

Different armies use different equipment, and in this case this shows even in the musket balls.

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Hoary Oaks on Heathen Barrow

Category: Archaeology

I write this sitting on a rock outcrop just east of the great barrow of Disevid in Heda parish.

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900 Years Ain't Old Enough

Category: Archaeology

The finds may mark the spot of a 12th century farmstead.

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Media Frenzy

Category: Archaeology

Two TV stations and one newspaper hunted us down to look at the find.

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Seven Brooches in Kaga

Category: Archaeology

Our Kaga site was very good to us today as well.

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Kaga Gold Foil Figure Model

Category: Archaeology

This is simply a mindblowing find, an instant classic.

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