1950s Aerial Pics of the Swedish Countryside
Category: Archaeology
Employees in pilot uniforms would ride around in limousines and sell copies to the landowners.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
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Weekend Fun
Category: Tech
Saturday me and the kids went on an unusual package tour. First we took the 1903 steam ship Mariefred from Stockholm to Mariefred, and got to visit the engine room while the machine was working. Mariefred is a small town...
Posted by Martin R at 2:51 PM • 8 Comments •
Libertarian Columnist Smears Sweden in the Guardian
Category: Politics
Andersson has fed his editor a scary interesting story that happens not to be true. His choice of words suggests that he has pretty extreme libertarian opinions that cause him to want the Swedish system to fail.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
11th Century Viking Silver Hoard Found
Category: Archaeology
Dating from the 11th century and consisting mainly of about 1000 German and English coins, it also has some Islamic ones, one from Sigtuna and even one from India, a very rare occurrence.
Posted by Martin R at 10:03 AM • 5 Comments •
Swedish Atheist Ad Campaign
Category: Skepticism
It may seem a little gratuitous in a country where few people are religious any more, but the ads make the point that there's a lot of quiet Christian influence still around in society.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
17th Century Coin Forgery
Category: Archaeology
It appears to be a forged gold coin, consisting of a soft grey metal (tin?) with a thin coating of a yellow metal.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
Vänern Wreck Probably Not a Viking Ship
Category: Archaeology
I received pictures and x-rays of the purported weapons. I am quite sure that they are a) not weapons, and b) not from the Viking Period.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Conflict Between Universities and Former State Church of Sweden
Category: Skepticism
One of the evaluation's main findings is that the Church of Sweden has too much influence over the universities, and that this influence has grown in recent years.
Posted by Martin R at 3:20 PM • 9 Comments •
How To Metal Detect Legally In Sweden
Category: Archaeology
A friendly Englishman asked me how a law-abiding metal detectorist should go about getting a permit to pursue their hobby in this country.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 63 Comments •
Three Swedish Archaeology Programs Warned
Category: Archaeology
All the warnings are due to inadequate quantity and quality of teaching staff per student.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Ancient Power Nodes
Category: Archaeology
Anglophones find it really funny that one of Sweden's oldest towns is named Sick Tuna.
Posted by Martin R at 8:28 AM • 8 Comments •
Sättuna Fieldwork Report On-Line
Category: Archaeology
Check it out if you're into the Late Mesolithic!
Posted by Martin R at 8:22 AM • 4 Comments •
North Shore Battlefield
Category: Archaeology
I'm particularly interested in the pre-battle finds that are starting to accumulate.
Posted by Martin R at 11:37 AM • 2 Comments •
Prehistoric Reenactment Centre
Category: Archaeology
You can book guides with which you participate in flint knapping, leather working, cooking, archery, trapping and so on.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
Sorted Newsfeed in Swedish
Category: Sweden
Printed newspaper are crap. The news in them is old, you still get entire multipage sections that you don't want, they use up trees and gasoline, they crowd your mailbox and you have to dispose of them after reading them....
Posted by Martin R at 9:34 AM • 4 Comments •
Rune Stones With Friends
Category: Archaeology
Maja Bäckvall and Jannie Teinler are visiting rune stones and posing for photographs along with them. So far they've done 121 rune stones!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Alvastra in the 1st Millennium
Category: Archaeology
The forenoon saw me in the stores of the Museum of National Antiquities looking through Otto Frödin's uncatalogued finds from the "Sverkersgården" site.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Swedish Archaeology Programs Evaluated
Category: Archaeology
"The programs appear to be put together according to whatever specialists each department has on its staff."
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 7 Comments •
Medieval Church Demolished, Rune Stones Found
Category: Archaeology
On the big rune stone, dating from about AD 1000, Torgärd's poetic commemoration of her maternal uncles can be read.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 2 Comments •
Archaeology is Not a Good Career
Category: Archaeology
If you do get a job against all odds, then that will be through contacts, and the job will be poorly paid and last only a few months in the summer.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 25 Comments •
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.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Daycare Looters
Category: Archaeology
These excavations are illegal. I don't think they should be, but they are.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 16 Comments •
Signs of Spring
Category: Biology
Signs of spring so far around where I live, apart from the obvious sunshine and disappearance of the snow & ice:Crocus Snowdrop Scilla Blackbird singing at sundown (ah!) Magpies brawling...
Posted by Martin R at 9:11 AM • 15 Comments •
Museum Opens Catalogue to User Participation
Category: Archaeology
The integrity of the museum-supplied data still stands, but now us users can help accrete more info around each find and site.
Posted by Martin R at 9:00 AM • 2 Comments •
Swedish Heritage Board Puts Good Stuff in Public Domain
Category: Archaeology
The Swedish Heritage Board has begun putting historical photographs whose copyright has expired onto Flickr Commons.
Posted by Martin R at 8:22 AM • 0 Comments •
Major Archaeological Journal Goes Open Access
Category: Archaeology
Every issue of Fornvännen will henceforth appear on-line half a year after it was distributed on paper.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Museum Catalogues Ice Cream Stick
Category: Archaeology
I don't think curating, photographing and cataloguing things like this is a good use of public funding.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 27 Comments •
A Riddle of Brass Feet
Category: Archaeology
You almost only find the feet and legs of the pots, hardly ever the wall or rim. Why is that?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 39 Comments •
Mapping Swedes and Geats
Category: Archaeology
I used to do all my plans and maps in a hard-core CAD program using a digitising tablet, but then WinXP came along.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 14 Comments •
Stockholm Blogmeet 9 March
Category: Blogging
It's time for a blogmeet! On Monday 9 March at 17:30 I want to see you guys at Akkurat on Hornsgatan 18 in Stockholm. This place offers an awe-inspiring selection of rare ales and malt whiskeys, and serves great...
Posted by Martin R at 4:31 PM • 8 Comments •
New Photo Book on Abandoned Buildings
Category: Archaeology
Now and then I blog about abandoned tree houses. But of course, real large houses are even more fascinating in their extended boundary state between dwelling and archaeological site (as I wrote about in January '06). I recently read...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
14th Century Shipwreck Off Swedish West Coast Possibly From England
Category: Archaeology
On 20 February 1361, King Edward III of England wrote to King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden and Norway with a complaint.
Posted by Martin R at 8:16 AM • 4 Comments •
Making the Archaeological Record
Category: Archaeology
Christian cemeteries are very unsafe places to be buried in.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 9 Comments •
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.
Posted by Martin R at 3:06 PM • 2 Comments •
Fornvännen's Colour Change
Category: Archaeology
Fornvännen -- Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research has had a number of different cover designs over the past century and the colour of the stock has varied. Starting with the first issue for 1966, it has had a beige rusticated...
Posted by Martin R at 8:22 AM • 0 Comments •
Never Say Please To Mother
Category: Language
In Chinese, polite figures of speech mark a distance.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 65 Comments •
Kuhnian Huns
Category: Archaeology
A veteran scholar appeals to Thomas Kuhn's old theory of paradigm shifts in order to evade criticism of her work.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 22 Comments •
TÃ¥by Figurine Is A Medieval Candlestick
Category: Archaeology
The Gotland specimen was kept above ground, in use and in repair from the Middle Ages until recently at a farmstead.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
Aard's Second Blogiversary
Category: Blogging
I'm still having fun and hope you are too!
Posted by Martin R at 10:42 AM • 6 Comments •
Merry Christmas
Category: Sweden
Merry Christmas, Dear Reader! I am in a good mood, checking my mail while most of the celebrants at my dad's house watch the annual Disney special, just having dropped my kids off for dinner at my mom's place where...
Posted by Martin R at 9:32 AM • 13 Comments •
High-Entropy Home Decoration
Category: Homeownership
Here are two snaps of my new home, taken just after breakfast today (the first bread I've baked in the house!). Both are taken toward the north: one from the kitchen door toward the dining room, the other standing...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 12 Comments •
Swedish Gaming Legend Blogs
Category: Gaming
The Swedish language has produced three truly great fantasists. Two are internationally reknowned: Astrid Lindgren (with Pippi Longstocking) and Tove Jansson (with Moomin). The third, Erik Granström, is almost exclusively known among Swedish gaming nerds like myself. From 1987 to...
Posted by Martin R at 4:37 PM • 12 Comments •
Where Am I Supposed To Publish?
Category: Archaeology
I'm not sure whom they're insulting here.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 16 Comments •
Djurhamn Sword Artwork
Category: Archaeology
They've stuck the Djurhamn sword point first into a vintage map of Djurö!
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 4 Comments •
Gnome Poop Insane
Category: Humour
Conversing with a friend recently, I mused, what could be the background to the expression "batshit insane"? My friend suggested that it might have something to do with having bats in the belfry. I then wondered what the Swedish equivalent...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 30 Comments •
Death in the Age of Facebook
Category: Tech
"In the morning I left voice mail messages to call me on my mother's and sister's numbers. As I came in to work I saw S still logged in to his Skype account, where he'd left it going for his...
Posted by Martin R at 2:40 AM • 4 Comments •
When Am I Researching Now?
Category: Archaeology
Here's my graph: not as pretty as Chris's, but hopefully legible.
Posted by Martin R at 1:26 PM • 4 Comments •
A Window into Winter
Category: Sweden
Our kitchen window on the first day of winter....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
Respectful Vandals
Category: History
Kids in Visby are defacing the town's jail from 1857 but respecting the Medieval town wall.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
TÃ¥by Figurine
Category: Archaeology
When was it made? Where? For what purpose?
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
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