Bakki, Tjörnes	In relation to construction work in the farm Bakki, subject to plans for building an aluminium factory, some machine digging took place and was supervised by an archaeologist.
	Gufuskálar	The farm of Gufuskálar lies on the westernmost tip of the Snæfellsnes peninsula under the glacier known as Snæfellsjökull. While the farm likely dates to the Viking Age the site was home to a mysterious and intensive commercial fishing venture during the 15th century. A mid-15th century legal document mentioned fourteen fishing booths (seasonally occupied structures intended to house fishers) at the site, although we have not identified this many as they may have succumbed to coastal erosion or other destructive processes. The dried fish product they produced was likely transported back to continental Europe in connection with continental European merchants and/or fishers. The site is significant for its proto-industrial level of dried fish production. It is constructed just after Iceland’s first brush with Bubonic Plague and may be a response to the effects of extreme depopulation. As chiefly/magnate/aristocratic power temporarily waned post-plague it may be that enterprising Icelandic fishers engaged in some sort of proto-capitalism in connection with the English merchants who wielded great influence in Iceland at the time. The fishing station was excavated between 2008 and 2015 by Fornleifastofnun Íslands in partnership with the City University of New York and represents an important resource for understanding Icelandic fisheries history and for broader issues of North Atlantic Maritime Historical Ecology and trade connections.
	Hólsfjöll	Trenches were excavated at two alleged farmsites in Hólsfjöll, N-Þingeyjarsýsla. The area lies at about 350-450 m above sea level and is one of the highest inhabited areas in Iceland.
	Kálfsskinn, Eyjafirði	In 2003 a few sites in Kálfskinn, Eyjafjörður, had been surveyed and identified as possible pagan burials. In 2005 two of those were tested by opening trenches across each concentrations of stones.
	Lyngbrekka	In 2003-2005 investigations took place in Lyngbrekka, earlier known as Gömlu-Daðastaðir in Reykjadalur, S-Þing. The aim was to see if folklore and place names could be used as reliable sources to locate pagan burials.
	Hringsdalur	In 2006 human bones were found eroding in Hringsdalur W-Iceland. An excavation was conducted and two pagan burials uncovered.
	Presthús, Akranesi	Due to contstruction work machine digging up against the farm-mound Presthús, Akranes, was monitored by an archaeologist. A section was cleaned and recorded.
	Narfastaðasel	Five trial trenches were excavated in Narfastaðasel to value the nature and date of the archaeology.
	Svalbarð revisited	In 1986 and 1988 midden excavations took place in Svalbarð, N-Þingeyjarsýsla, revealing one of the largest faunal collections up to that point in Iceland. The results were instrumental in the development of methods and models for reconstructing palaeoeconomies in the N-Atlantic region. In 2008 the Svalbarð midden was revisited with the aim of refining the stratigraphy and dating, to gather new radiocarbon, geoarchaeological and ecofact samples to supplement landscape history and site fomation reconstructions for the site and for the Svalbard region, and to identify potential locations for further archaeological research.
	Búðarhálsvirkjun	Archaeological investigations were carried out in Búðarháls prior to the flooding of a stone-built enclosure. This included a measured DGPS survey, a photographic survey, as well as the excavation of four trenches across the walls of the upstanding and visible enclosure.

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