[html] <span style="color: #00ccff; font-size: large"><div align="center"><span style="color: #00ccff; font-size: large"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: x-large">Jeg modtog denne mail fra Dan Carlson med opfordring til interesserede om at deltage i vikinge udgravninger på nord Gotland til sommer, var det noget for dig ?</span><br /><br />Dear Viking friends,<br /><br />In the middle of the winter, with a lot of snow outside my window, I think it is time to start thinking of coming summer, because there is a summer coming, even if it is hard to believe when I look out my window - just snow everywhere, and a lot of it. <br /><br />Coming summer, we will have another excavation of a Viking Age - Medieval farmstead again here on the island of Gotland, this time in northern part of the island. I have made some pre-investigation at the site, and it looks as if the farm is abandoned in the middle of the Middle Ages. But what we really wont to find out is when the farm is established. The farm is one of these small farms, and also have the name Little Hultungs, in comparison to the old farm that is jut called Hultungs. And normally we think that farms of this kind is an expansion during Middle Ages. But we might have been thinking wrong here, and there is today much in the favour of the farms being established already in the Viking Age, or even before. At Little Hultungs, we found a piece of a female brooch that can be dated to what we call the Vendel period, meaning some hundred years before the Viking Age.<br /><br />If we can prove with the excavation that the farm is actually established already in Viking Age, that will profoundly change our knowledge of the settlement and landscape expansion supposed to take place in Middle Ages.<br /><br />Now, you have all the possibility to take part in this research and find out buy yourself the really story of the supposed Viking expansion, by taking part in the the excavation. Starting the 29th of June, and going on for 4 weeks, we will investigate Little Hultungs. And parallel to the excavation, and continuing two weeks longer then the excavation, we will have a specific course devoted to understanding of the artefacts of the time, and learn how to handle, register and interpret artefacts. One can combine the two courses if one want.<br /><br />Interested to join or to know more bout these courses, please have a look at: <a href="http://www.arkeodok.com/index1.html">http://www.arkeodok.com/index1.html</a> and download the pdf file about the summer courses. I would be grateful if you pass this information on to persons that you might think would be interested.<br />_____________________________________________<br /><br />Now, two years ago, the field course was about the excavation of a Viking site at a farm called Klints. There had been a silver hoard found some years before, and we set out to see if we could find the exact place for the hoard, and also to find out about any settlement at the site.<br /><br />And we did find, both the place for the silver hoard, and some extra 80 coins from Viking Age, both German, English and Arabic coins. And most fascinating, we found well preserved wooden posts in some of the post holes, of rather big dimensions. These posts were extremely well preserved, due to wet conditions. We had a sample examine by dendrochronological to find out about the age of the post, and by that the building. Now we have got the result! The post, and then also the house, can be dated to between 1044 and 1050. In other words, the house is about 30 years younger then the hoard. It is rather fascinating that one can date a wooden post so exactly, even if it s a thousand years old.<br /><br />Some years ago, we excavated some jetties in a small river, and found incredible well preserved wooden constructions, even the bark where still there. This jetties we could, thanks to dendrochronoly date exactly to the year - they were felled in the year 1008 (in the spring!). That is what I call a feeling of contact with a thousand year old history.<br /><br />Finally, I have now made a report of an excavation last summer of a small cemetery consisting of cremation graves from early Viking Ave. The report is only in Swedish, but I am planning to make a small book about it, togheter with an excavation of another cemetery late autumn with inhumation graves from Viking Age, and put on the net. But until then, there are some photos of artefacts in the report that might interest you, and maybe, there is even someone who understand Swedish (:- You can download a web version of the report at: <a href="http://files.me.com/dancarlsson/eq5957">http://files.me.com/dancarlsson/eq5957</a><br /><br />Until next time, look for the spring!<br /><br />Best regards<br />Dan Carlsson</span></div></span> [/html]
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