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...
Posted on July 10, 2008 12:53 PM • 2 Comments •
I wish one of those pits would strike a 16th century midden!
Posted on July 7, 2008 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
One tree house had an interesting piece of furniture: a gynaecologist's examination chair!?
Posted on June 19, 2008 3:32 PM • 2 Comments •
Working in the woods was weird because of the outlandish sounds from a colony of grey herons.
Posted on June 17, 2008 4:00 PM • 5 Comments •
Larsson borrowed a horse trailer from a relative and crammed the entire Skateholm fieldwork equipment into it.
Posted on June 13, 2008 5:14 PM • 6 Comments •
Amazing to find all this insanely old material in a tract of completely nondescript woodland.
Posted on May 26, 2008 4:12 PM • 10 Comments •
Ullr is one of the old gods that were semi-forgotten in Snorri's day.
Posted on May 20, 2008 4:59 PM • 7 Comments •
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...
Posted on May 15, 2008 4:12 AM • 18 Comments •
The St. Olaf site was perfect for metal detecting today, recently harrowed and almost completely without vegetation.
Posted on May 8, 2008 5:31 PM • 0 Comments •
The step from a hammer-wielding pagan god to an axe-holding Viking saint may not have been very great.
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Posted on April 18, 2008 4:07 PM • 3 Comments •