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	Þinghald til forna: Framvinduskýrsla 2002 In 2002 new surface models were made of the following sites, using DGPS survey: Þorskafjarðarþing, Árnesþing, Þingeyri in Dýrafjörður and Valseyri in Dýrafjörður. A large excavation project was started in Þingvellir and a new set of research questions introduced. The aim was f.ex. to see how extensive the assembly site is, to try and date some of the structures and to see if it is possible to identify which structures belong to the assembly itself and which don´t. Preliminary excavation was conducted in three places: a) the so called "Njálsbúð". It was damaged...
	Þinghald Að Fornu - Fornleifarannsóknir 2003 This year´s (2003) excavation was dedicated to the ruin area around Biskupshólar (Bishops hills) east of river Öxará as earlier trenching had given good results. An area of about 130 m2 was opened in the northeastern part of the hills. The remains excavated consisted of numerous steone alignments and part s of stone faced turf walls, fragments of an as yet unknown number of temporary structures, each of which may have undergone numerous episodes of repair and reconstruction. Positive dating evidence was somewhat limited, but deposits excavated in this area are believed to date to...
	Excavations at Þingvellir 2004: A Preliminary Report Research in Biskupshólar, Þingvellir, was continued in 2004 by enlarging the area to the south. Fragments of several temporary structures were revealed, each of which may have undergone numerous episodes of repair and reconstruction. Positive dating evidence was limited but most artefacts are post-medieval. Open area excavation also commenced at Miðmundatún - an area that has been the subject of tree plantation - of about 40 m2. The uppermost elements of a turf and stone construction were revealed, seemingly the part of a room or a building. These efforts are seen as merely...
	Þingvellir og þinghald að fornu - Framvinduskýrsla 2005 In 2005 excavation was continued in Þingvellir. 1) A part of Miðmundatún was surveyed with a ground penetrating radar to detect archaeological targets and two areas trenched, building on the survey results. A structure and a thick, charcoalrich layer was discovered in one trench but it remains unknown whether it belongs to the Thingvellir farm or the thingsite. 2) A part of Sigurður Vigfússons trench from 1880 in the alleged Lögberg was reopened and remains reassessed. A part of a possible stonebuilt structure was found but the trench was too small to give definite results. It...
	Fornleifarannsóknir í S-Þingeyjarsýslu 2006 This report contains results of investigations carried out in coopperation with Hið þingeyska fornleifafélag (The Archaeological society in Þingeyjarsýsla) in 2006. 1. Excavation in Litlu-Núpar continued. Three trenches were excavated. Two of them were dug into oblong ruins which both postdate the 950 tephra and had fallen out of use long before the 1477 tephra was deposited. Neither seems to be a dwelling. The third trench was in a smaller ruin, possibly still in use after a tephra from 1104/1158 was deposited. This was interpretded as a possible barn. 2) Investigations...