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Project Details: Medieval farm sites trenched in Mývatnssveit

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Project Description

Parent ProjectMývatn Landscapes Project
Title: Medieval farm sites trenched in Mývatnssveit
Description This part of the Landscapes of Settlement project aims to do prelimiary trenching in several sites in the Mývatn area to acquire dates for settlements, both their establishment and abandonment.
Country Iceland
Project Start Year 2002
Project End Year Ongoing

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

Landscapes of settlement 2002 - Reports on investigations at five medieval sites in Mývatnssveit
In 2002 a few medieval sites in Mývatnssveit were trenched in connection with the Landscape of settlements project, with the aim gaining better understanding of how the settlement process evolved. Steinbogi was one of them, but had some structures excavated further due to road construction plans. The homefield boundary in Steinbogi was in use between 950 and 1158 and the farm was most likely abandoned before the 1158 tephra was deposited although some activity is visible after that. A substantial faunal collection was retrieved from a midden, showing an unusual pattern with sheep...
Archaeological investigations in Mývatnssveit 2007
Five trenches were excavated in Mývatnssveit in 2007 to date sites suspected to be early: Beinisstaðir, Geldingatættur, Litlu-Gautlönd, Þorleifsstaðir, Selholt . Four of the sites trenched were dated to pre 1300 by tephra and some were obviously earlier. It can be maintained from combined results from trenching over the last years that a large number of farms was abandoned in Mývatnssveit before 1300 and earlier in some cases. Furthermore some coring took place at modern farm sites to try and locate middens. All corings were successful but the midden in Skútustaðir south of...
Archaeological investigations in Mývatnssveit, Reykjadalur and Svartárkot 2010
Although major excavations in Mývatnssveit wound to a close in 2006 fieldwork has continued there every season since. The largest single component has been the midden excavation at Skútustaðir from 2008 and in 2010 excavation of the Christian cemetery in Hofstaðir resumed after a break of several years. In 2007 a number of sites were targeted for minor interventions both to identify midden deposits suitable for further investigation but also in order to obtain dating for the settlements. The results confirmed earlier indications that a very large number of farm sites in Mývatnssveit were...

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