arnäsbacken, örnsköldsvik.

I've visited this site a few times, on different excursions but never taken photos, until this time. the late iron age to medieval settlements are located on a small narrow hill with house constructions first and at the end of the hill there are grave mounds. Litterature: Ramqvist, P.H. 1998. Arnäsbacken - en gård från yngre järnålder och medeltid.  Prehistorica. Umeå.

grave mounds:

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:

excursion around the city of sundsvall, part 2

Högom:

norrlands largest grave field at Högom, Sundsvall.

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Tuna had lots of different sites:

us, as postholes. foto: sofi.

house?

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hill fort:

me, linnéa and elisabet.

view from the  hill fort

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Gene, iron age settlement:

the older and younger long houses at gene.

cooking pit, gene

gravemound, gene

a house over a house, gene

the big house of iron working at the settlement, gene

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bronze age cairns :
(there was also a stone ship at this site)

excursion around the city of sundsvall, part 1

B-course in Archaeology. We got to see lots of different ancient monuments. it was very exciting to get out and search the landscape to spot them. I can't remember the names of the places.

partly dried lake with house foundations and hearths:

foto: sofi.

hearth? we saw lots of these hearth formations. an asbestos pot sherd was found, which is to be expected in this northern part of sweden.

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a long cocking pit(?) by a lake:

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a lot of slagg (iron production site) by the same lake as the cocking pit above. :

slagg. awesome!