Wed 22-07-15

Túnfótur (at Ás) and Gerði (at Keldudalur)

Over the last two days, I and my hardworking team of soil corers have found evidence of early habitation at two sites on Hegranes - Túnfótur (a ruin on the present-day farm of Ás II) and Gerði (a named place on the present-day farm of Keldudalur). I plan to do some excavation at both sites later this summer!

Coring team, hard at work at Keldudalur!

A core at Ás, showing some turf older than 1104 (the bright white tephra layer)!

By the way, as I learned last month, Icelandic for folding ruler is tommustokkur. (Not Thomas Tucker, as the American crew has now named it!)

Next step: more cores, other farms!

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Thu 09-07-15

Getting Started

It's hard to believe I've been in Iceland for over a month already! I've spent the last several weeks meeting with colleagues at Svartárkót and in Reykjavík, and working in the field with archaeologists from Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga. The rest of the SCaSS crew arrived on Monday and we've started on survey, geophysics, and the part that is closest to my heart - coring.

A core including tephra layers dating to 1104 AD (the white line) and ca. 1000 AD (the black line at left). (Special thanks to the UMass students whose legs appear in the photo!)

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