2015 augusti

Alvastra pile dwelling

2015-08-28

The full picture

Photograph: Stockholm University For technical reasons the photograph that introduces our blog has been severely curtailed. Here is the full version of the picture taken during the excavations from 1976 to 1980. It shows all four trenches that were investigated during this campaign. The eastern trench is in the foreground. Behind it is the middle ...

2015-08-26

Alvastra Project up and running

Greg Tanner registering flint artifacts The project entitled”The Alvastra pile dwelling – an archaeological resource” has been in operation for a few months now. If you are not familiar with the project and its goals, it will soon receive a description on the home page of the Swedish History Museum (https://historiska.se/forskning/). In the meantime we refer to ...