Western trench

2017-04-05

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 ...

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 ...

2016-09-12

A new book

When Mats P. Malmer started new excavations at the Alvastra Pile Dwelling between the year 1976 and 1980 the excavation area was divided up into four trenches – the Eastern, the Western, the Middle and the Investigation trenches. Investigations in these trenches were directed by four different archaeologists – Mats P. Malmer (Eastern), Hans Browall ...