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- Andrén, Anders, 1952-, et al.
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The ringfort by the sea : Archaeological geophysical prospection and excavations at Sandby borg (Öland)
- 2014
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Ingår i: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. - Mainz : Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums. - 0342-734X. ; 44:3, s. 413-428
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Archaeological investigations and clear aerial photos have identified the presence of house foundations within several ringforts on the island of Öland, east of the Swedish mainland. One of them, Sandby borg, was selected for further investigations by means of a ground-penetrating radar (GRP) and magnetometry survey. A subsequent excavation was carried out to validate the geophysical results. The results of the geophysical survey clearly show the presence of 36 or 37 stone foundations for houses situated radially around the wall of the fort as well as of 16 or 17 similar house foundations in a central building group. The geophysical results also provided information on other buried features within the fort and also confirm the location of a third gate situated in the north-western part of the fort. The available evidence indicates that the ringfort was used for military purposes, or as a place of refuge in times of unrest, for a limited period of time during the late 5th century.
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- Kalmring, Sven, et al.
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AT HOME WITH HERIGAR : A MAGNATE'S RESIDENCE FROM THE VENDEL- TO VIKING PERIOD AT KORSHAMN, BIRKA (UPPLAND/S)
- 2017
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Ingår i: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. - 0342-734X. ; 47:1, s. 117-140
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In September 2016 geophysical surveys were conducted at Korshamn, as one of the main harbour bays of the island of Bjorko, situated outside the town boundaries of the Viking town of Birka. The investigation of a solitarily raised plateau at Erik Steffanssons hemland revealed the outline of a large Vendel-period house. Together with further anomalies at a one-sided terrace at Kalvhagen a whole manor complex might be seizable predating the Viking-Age settlement activities on the island. The latter dwelling is superimposed by a major Viking-Age hall connecting to a fenced special area as known from e.g. Lejre and Tisso and linked to cult activities. Both the structures and the chronological depth correlate well with the ancestral property of Birka's royal bailiff Herigar as mentioned in Rimbert's Vita Anskarii. If this assumption is correct even the whereabouts of Scandinavia's first church should be located in the immediate vicinity. The consequences of this identification cannot be overestimated: In terms of the emergence of the Viking town, its royal administration and the earliest Christian mission in Scandinavia.
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- Larsson, Lars, et al.
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Bog sites and wetland settlement during the Mesolithic: research from a bog in central Scania, southern Sweden
- 2011
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Ingår i: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. - 0342-734X. ; 41:4, s. 457-472
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bog sites and wetland settlement during the Mesolithic: research from a bog in central Scania, southern Sweden The bogs Agerods Mosse and Ronneholms Mosse with their total area of 12 km(2), form a north-westerly arm of the Ringsjon Basin of central Scania, in the southernmost part of Sweden. In the 1940s and 1970s excavations of Early Mesolithic sites around and within the bog Agerods Mosse were carried out. In the middle of the 1990s new excavations were initiated in the bog Ronneholms Mosse for peat exploitation. A number of base camps and more than 100 small sites, most of them merely including a hearth and some refuse, have been identified. Stray finds of bone tools, deposits of flint blades, as well as parts of refuse layers have been discovered. One remarkable find is an arrow of hazel wood with microliths glued to the tip.
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- Ljungkvist, John, 1970-
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Dating two royal mounds of Old Uppsala : evaluating the elite of the 6th-7th century in Middle Sweden
- 2008
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Ingår i: Archaeologisches Korrespondenzblatt. - 0342-734X. ; 38:2, s. 263-282
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The perhaps most famous excavated iron age graves in Sweden are the East- and West Mounds of Old Uppsala (Gamla Uppsala) in Uppland, Middle Sweden. After a debate which lasted from the 1920s to the late 1940s it was widely accepted that these mounds belonged to the Migration period. According to the regular Swedish chronology this means a date before the middle of the 6th century. I believe that this view is wrong and that it has not seriously been challenged since 1948. To date the mounds to the late 6th and even the early 7th century has a serious effect upon how elite, society and international relations should be interpreted.
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- Ljungkvist, John, 1970-, et al.
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Gamla Uppsala : Structural development of a centre in Middle Sweden
- 2011
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Ingår i: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. - 0342-734X. ; 41:4, s. 571-585
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article is a result of settlement investigations in Gamla ("Old") Uppsala, which have been carried out regularly over the past 20 years. The material can be divided into two chronological and spatial groups. In the peripheral parts of the historical village several large settlements, mainly dated to the Early Iron Age, have been investigated. In the central area quite many excavations have been made of Late Iron Age and medieval remains. But these are usually small and scattered. By compiling a large number of large and small excavations, accumulated over the years, we may gain a coherent view of Gamla Uppsala's settlement development from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. The establishment of monumental edifices - such as the Uppsala Mounds, great halls on artificial terraces and the cathedral from the 12th century - can progressively be related to changes in the settlement structure. Moreover, traces of metal craft increase continuously, and seem to be present over vast areas. More and more, Gamla Uppsala emerges as a place of cult, as a central farmstead with royal connections and as a large village. Gamla Uppsala can now be characterized as something resembling a proto-urban site in the Viking Age. However, interestingly enough, the site is located in a completely different geographical environment to early coastal towns such as Birka and Sigtuna. What can be said for certain is that the Late Iron Age society in Gamla Uppsala is something entirely different from the large peasant village we meet in late medieval and post-reformation phases.
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- Schultzén, Joakim M.
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On the Metrology of Birka and Early Sigtuna - Tools of Trade in the Viking Age Lake Mälaren Valley (Sweden)
- 2014
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Ingår i: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt. - 0342-734X. ; 44:1, s. 127-136
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyses weights from the site of Birka, the main centre for trade in the Lake Malaren Valley during the Viking Age, as well as its successor, the medieval town of Sigtuna, with the purpose of identifying which weight system was employed for trade in the area and period. The results show that the system was a local variant (the Baltic Sea system) of the contemporary weight system of the Caliphate. Further, the paper deals with the reasons for implementing this system and why it remained in use in Sigtuna even after trade had shifted to areas where other weight systems were decreed. We propose that the increased trade with Western Europe in the late 10th century to a large extent was conducted via the Western Slavonic region, which would, at this time, still have employed the Baltic Sea system, and further that direct trade with monetary economies such as the Holy Roman Empire and England would have given little incentive for change.
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