News

2019-10-23

Seminar – a research platform to be launched

The project Alvastra pile dwelling – an archaeological resource will finish with a seminar where the new research portal will be officially launched. An invitation to the seminar and a list of speakers can be found below. Seminar Date: Wednesday 29 January 12.00 am, Thursday 30 January 12.00-20.20 pm Location: Barocksalen, Historiska museet, Storgatan 41, ...
2019-07-17

The Alvastra project is nearing the end

We are spending the summer going through everything that has been produced and editing texts so that they can be published on the digital platform which we hope to launch this autumn. Very embarrassingly, when going through all the material stored in various places, I found a text that should have been published in this ...
2018-05-02

Upside down or the right way up?

If you wanted to cut out a block of peat containing archaeological remains and place it in a wooden box for transport to a museum for excavation indoors, how would you do it? Would you cut out the block, make a wooden box of the correct size and then place the box upside down over ...
2018-03-26

State keeps Alvastra pile dwelling finds

Compiled report   In Sweden all archaeological finds belong to the state. The state can decide to transfer the ownership of archaeological finds from the state to another institution if that institution is capable of  preserving archaeological assemblages. When an excavation has been reported,  it is the National Heritage Board that decides who is to ...
2017-12-21

Database complete

Our blog has been silent since May. This is because we have been working very hard to complete the assemblage database. We have now succeeded. All the material excavated by Mats P. Malmer has now been registered, partially photographed and placed (digitally and physically) in the museum storerooms. The complete assemblage is available online via ...
2017-04-25

The Alvastra finds as 3D-models!

Are you curious about the finds from the Alvastra pile dwelling? Today is going to be a good day for you then, because it is now possible to have a look at some of the finds as 3D-models! Very cool! Through the Swedish History Museum’s Sketchfab-page (link below) you can have a look at a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...