Inlägget publicerades: 2017-04-05 Antal kommentarer på inlägget: 2

A ceramic spectrum

The registration process of the pottery continues. As I progress it becomes clearer that the ceramic material varies within the different trenches as well as between the trenches. The pottery from the middle trench has long since been registered and the pottery from the western trench will soon be registered as well. However, since the ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2017-03-09

Alvastra pile dwelling in English

The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities has again published a book of interest for all those who want to know more about the Alvastra pile dwelling, this time in English (Malmer 2016). The volume is entitled Archaeology as fact and fiction. Mats P. Malmer’s archaeological writings 1948 – 2002.  When Mats Malmer died in ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2017-02-21

Burnt and fragmented – an overview of flint from the Western trench

I am happy to announce that my very first task in the Alvastra project is finished! The flint from the Western trench has now been registered and digitalised on the Swedish History Museum’s platform Sök i samlingarna. The total number of flint finds reached 1218 finds in 533 posts. The flint material from this trench ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2017-01-27

Peat block from C9 – turned upside down

Presentation by Hans Browall,   2017-01-16 (edited 2017-01-25) I read with great interest last year’s blog posts on the excavation of the peat block from the Alvastra pile dwelling. The block was removed during the 1930 excavations and the project group assumed that it had lain under the clay vessel SHM 16374:C9,1 in the east ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2017-01-12

The apple and the pip

Working with archaeological material is interesting and exciting, however the thrill and awe over how old the objects are have somewhat lessened through the years. Nonetheless, every now and then I get those thrills and they fill me with humility and admiration for the people who made and used the objects that are now 5000 ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-12-22

New face in the Alvastra project

Allow me to introduce a new member of the project group – Sandra Söderlind. Sandra will be working with us for the first six months of 2017, possibly for a longer period of time. I will let Sandra describe her interests and background  herself.   Hello everyone! My name is Sandra and I have recently ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-12-16

Digitalization is blazing forward in pictures!

Recently, the project benefited from a temporary insurgence of extra manpower in the form of two talented archaeologists who served as photographers digitalizing artifacts. One of our colleagues Sara Kusmin, as well as Jessika Lindquist, an intern studying her masters of archaeology at Stockholm University, have together taken over 700 photographs of various types of ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-12-07 Antal kommentarer på inlägget: 3

Birkasumpen är äntligen digital

  Några av de mest omfattande undersökningarna på Björkö skedde på slutet 1800-talet under ledning av  Hjalmar Stolpe. Hans undersökningar av både gravar och Svarta jorden resulterade i tusentals fynd. Delar av dessa fynd förvarades till en början i en lokal på det dåtida Kungliga Carolinska Institutet och kom senare till Björkörummet på Historiska museet, när museet fortfarande ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-12-01

From the Middle Neolithic to the Middle Ages

Textile fragment during excavation.  Photo: Nathalie Hinders, SHMM We already know that the Dags mosse mire was not only used during the Middle Neolithic. The material traces of these post Stone Age activities are by no means comprehensive but they do exist. The radiocarbon analysis of human bones revealed one individual from the Early Roman ...

Inlägget publicerades: 2016-11-11

Trenches Are A-Changin’

We can proudly announce that we have now started with regestering material from the Middle trench! Pottery from the Middle trench was the first material to begin to be registered. Only a few posts have been registered so far. My first observations are that the ceramic material from the Middle trench is much more fragmented than the material ...