bronsålder i röbäck, umeå

foto: sofi.

seminariegrävning på vår C-kurs. 4 veckor i september. härligt att vara ute hela dagarna, dessutom i fint område. benen i graven daterades till bronsålder, i ett gravfält (7 röseliknande stensättningar) som tidigare troddes vara järnålder. hurra för oss! beteckningen blev tillslut övertorvad stensättning. mitt hår bytte färg från svart till orange också.

translation: pictures from our seminar dig on our C-course right outside town. it was a lovely area and i really enjoyed the autumn weather for 4 weeks. the bones in this grave mound were C14 dated to bronze age, in a grave field previously thought to be iron age. well done by us!!

sofi och linnea.

elisabet vilar.

foto: sofi

tomas och jag.
foto: sofi östman.

foto: sofi östman.

elisabet.

jag och per.
foto: sofi

återställande.
foto:sofi

halvvägs färdigt!
foto: sofi

vi!

labbarbete. foto: sofi östman.

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)