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!

provtagning, umedalen

a kurs, eller tidig b-kurs.
vi fick se hur man tar pollenprov i en frusen sjös sediment!
det var jättekallt.
foto: sofi,
jag i rutig jacka!

exkursion nämforsen, del 2

dagen efter besöket i Nämforsen så åkte vi vidare ut i skogen, bl a Bastuloken och högberget. tittade på fångstgropar och några hällmålningar.

exkursion nämforsen, del 1

sofi östmans foton.

A-kurs. vi åkte och hälsade på de i C-kursen över oss
som hade seminariegrävning i Nämforsen.
hade jag inte kamera med mig?!
hursomhelst så var det ett jättemysigt ställe.