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Project Details: Myrkárdalur


Project Description

Parent ProjectGásir Hinterlands Project
Title: Myrkárdalur
Description The highland site at Myrkárdalur contains several ruins, and the early farm ruin is clearly visible: several rooms are connected through a central corridor, reminiscent of medieval houses from Greenland. A landslide in the 14th Century destroyed part of the farm and the occupants were forced to move further west, where several more recent ruins are located (sources cited in Hreiðarsd. 2008:178). Myrkárdalur was abandoned in 1955 and the land has since been used by the nearest farm, Myrkárbakki. Midden trenching at different locations in 2008 and 2009 has resulted in a small amount of faunal remains and artefacts, dating the contents to the 17th/18th centuries in trench 1 and the 16th/17th centuries in trench 2.
Keywords:Hörgárdalur
local-resources
archaeofauna
environment
site-formation-processes
Sponsors/Funders NSF, NABO, CUNY NORSEC, FSI
Country Iceland
Project Start Year 2008
Project End Year 2009

Project Contact

Contact: Ramona Harrison
Address Øysteinsgate 3, 5020 Bergen
Postcode 5020
Email Ramona.Harrison@uib.no

Project Content

Myrkárdalurin Hörgárdalur, N. Iceland:Brief Summary of the 2008/2009 Archaeofauna
In summer of 2008 and 2009, anexcavation team led by the author and Howell M. Roberts (FSI) investigated the potential for midden remains at Myrkárdalur, a farm ruin site situated in a highland area in the most interior part of a minor valley system in Hörgárdalur, Eyjafjörður. The results of these exercises were two small collections of archaeological materials from two middens of the post-medieval and Early Modern Periods. The results of zooarchaeological analysis are presented here, with a very limited discussion on potential site economy. While the ruins visible in the landscape are...


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