a week at Gene

Further excavations in 2007 at the iron age settlement by the sea at Gene, north Sweden, originally excavated during the 80's and 90's. This is the northest iron age settlement in Sweden known to date. Two longhouses, one older and one younger right beside each other, graves and a big smithy. I went here both with my friend Elisabet for a week and with my parents. it was a lot of fun! i never thought i would be able to dig there, i thought it was a case closed so to speak.

In the few trenches that was opened, to look for pre roman iron age, we the diggers found a pearl, number 13 of the total amount ever found i think, and a big iron key! (pictured) it was awesome! there was some wood logs buried in the trenches we dug, we don't know what kind of structure it was. We also dug outside of the iron working house. And my father found a piece of ornated pot sherd! We also went on excursions, to Arnäsbacken, a later iron age settlement in the area, but i have no photos of that.

trenches:

elisabet digging. she found a pile of broken pottery!
this trench was burning hot when the sun came out.
no way i can survive in egypt was my thought.

my pretty mother.

outside the smithy:

smithy replica vs, the site:

replica of what the longhouses 
would have looked like: