A hard long week
on Nov 19, 2009 in Archaeology Jämtland Östersund burial funeral Graves Kvalitet i uppdragsarkeologin It’s been a difficult and in many ways a hard week, for different reasons. This Monday I attended a funeral, in Jonkoping, for a close friend of the family. Funerals are never fun but can be a situation for contemplation. Besides thinking on the de...

Silence of the finds
on Nov 11, 2009 in Uncategorized Osteologiska föreningen It’s been a bit quite here at Testimony lately. I currently read a couple of books that I intend to write a few lines on here and for the Osteological Associations periodical Benbiten. To give sound to the silence two hits of the 60’s one by its...

We’ve made the news
on Nov 4, 2009 in Archaeology Uppland Arkeologi mellingeholm Norrtälje Today we were part of the headlines in Norrtelje Tidning (article in Swedish). It’s me holding the Rover. Magnus Reuterdahl...

Final week at Mellingeholm
on Nov 2, 2009 in Archaeology Uppland Arkeologi excavation mellingeholm Norrtälje This week will be a GIS kind of week for me, a lot o f measuring with the rover and the total station and processing the data and in between helping out in the search pits. As winter’s approaching the days are getting shorter, the weather in itself...

Ancient find lito
on Oct 29, 2009 in Uncategorized ancient finds fornfynd Iron Age järnålder litografi Metallzeit I collect things; books, comics, art, wine etc. One that I really dig is historic maps and anatomy lithos (osteology), a few weeks ago I stumbled upon this lithography, originally from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 5. Auflage. Bibliographisches Insti...

Mellingeholm part 2
on Oct 25, 2009 in Uppland Archaeology Arkeologi excavation mellingeholm Norrtälje test pits A new week in the field awaits. Last week we managed to do a lot of work but there’s still plenty to do. We’ve dug a lot of search pits, ca 5-10 m in length 1,5-2 m in width and 0,4-0,5 m in depth, to delimit two grave fields. Between these grave...

Mellingeholm
on Oct 20, 2009 in Archaeology excavation Now what is that and perhaps more important where is that? Mellingeholm is a property ca 65 km northwest of Stockholm and a few km south of Norrtälje in Frötuna parish. At the moment I participate in a archaeological preliminary investigation, step...

A book on the ”father” of archaeology
on Oct 18, 2009 in Archaeology literature In the mail today came the book; To wake the dead – a renaissance merchant and the birth of archaeology by Marina Belozerskaya (2009). Published by W.W. Norton & Company. I’ve yet to read it but it seems an interesting read about archaeology...

GNSS/SWEPOS seminary
on Oct 12, 2009 in Archaeology excavation Gävle GNSS GPS Lantmäteriet seminarium Swepos Tomorrow and the day after I’ll attend a two day seminary on GNSS and SWEPOS® held by Lantmateriet (the Swedish mapping, cadastral and land registration authority) in Gävle. GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) is the standard term for sate...

Quarry exposed
on Oct 10, 2009 in excavation kvartsbrott Liden’s medieval church Lidens medeltida kyrka Then the excavation at Raa 225 and 226 in Holm parish, Medelpad is finished and we’re back in Ostersund.   This was a special dig, not many quartz quarries have been excavated so it was exciting. The quarry is situated beautifully on a small rock...