read the landscape

nämforsen

vi tog oss tid att åka på en liten exkursion runt i krokarna när vi var ute på seminariegrävningen. i Nämforsen hann jag inte se allt denna gång för sällskapet hade bråttom. jag hade velat stanna längre och i lugn och ro fått titta på hällristningarna, vad fina dom är! vi gjorde samma rutt som på A-kursen, nämligen nämforsen, högberget och bastuloken. denna gång ha jag betydligt mer vetskap om de platserna!

the elk has always been important in scandinavia and it is the most common to spot on rock carvings and rock paintings in the north. and hey, people of today have elk stickers on their cars and what not, so we're not much different!
this is northern europe's largest collection of rock carvings at a place called Nämforsen in the north of  Sweden. I only managed to photograph a few of them.
 website for Nämforsen in english: http://www.namforsen.com/default.asp?path=22553&pageid=32598

look at the elk and fish kissing in the left bottom corner!

elks above and elks with reindeer? below

stockholmsgata.

så otroligt fint och häftigt! väl värt ett besök. särskilt på hösten då alla vackra färger gör platsen übermysig. jag trivdes! hit åker jag gärna igen. stockholmsgata(varför heter det så?) är en urbergskanjon och bildades av en isälv för 9000 år sedan. vi åkte hit från Solberg.














här gick man nere i kanjonen, det var jättehäftigt med höga bergväggar på båda sidorna! och fuktigt i luften var det.

english

smått o gott.

härd.

bildad av inlandsisen. i området fanns även många dödisgropar.

liten fångstgrop

boplatsvall. den hade en tydlig ingång mot sjön (höger i bild, syns inte här dock).

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: