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Project Details: Dettifoss


Project Description

Title: Dettifoss
Description In advance of road construction near Dettifoss, N-Iceland, some archaeological sites in Þingeyjarsýsla had to be investigated.
Country Iceland
Project Start Year 2008
Project End Year 2009

Project Contact

Contact: Fornleifastofnun Íslands
Address Bárugata 3, 101 Reykjavík, ICELAND
Postcode 101
Telephone 00354-5511033
Website http://www.instarch.is
Email fsi@instarch.is

Project Content

Fornleifakönnun á framkvæmdasvæði fyrirhugaðs Dettifossvegar: Tóveggjarstekkur, Hræreksstaðir og Maríugerði
26 evaluation trenches were excavated in three alleged farm sites in N-Þingeyjarsýsla in advance of road construction planning. The sites are: Hræreksstekkur, Tóveggjarstekkur and Maríugerði. A few trenches revealed no occupational layers but many were dug through boundaries predating tephra from 1477 or even 1300. An oblong structure in Maríugerði requires further excavation.


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