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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.

Fieldwork:

33 Test Pits

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...

Test Pitting at Djurhamn

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

More Djurhamn Tree House Ruins

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

Continued Surveying at Djurhamn

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

Early Neolithic Golf Course

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

Mesolithic Seal Hunters On a Hilltop Near You

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

Sacred Field of the Shining One

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

Bits and Bobs

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...

Sunny Fieldwork in Uppland

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

Investigating the Field of Saint Olaf

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

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