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GIS-material for the archaeological project: Sund and Russingstorp

SND-ID: SND 2013

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Stiftelsen Kulturmiljövård Mälardalen

Description

The information in the abstract is translated from the archaeological report:
Stiftelsen Kulturmiljövård Mälardalen (KM) performed a field evaluation of the ancient monuments RAÄ 59 and RAÄ 60 in Fivelstad parish, Motala municipality, Östergötland during the period of April-May 2009. The investigation area consisted of a 700 meter long and 40-50 meters wide area along the eastern side of the railroad, south of Fågelsta. Previous archaeological surveys preceding the expansion of the railway have found several cultural and cultivation layers, settlement areas and scattered features in connection to this area, with datings ranging from the Early Neolithic to the Roman Iron Age. The results from the field evaluation show that these areas continue to the east. Finds of a Neolithic stone ax, pottery of Bronze Age/Early Iron Age character and three features that were radiocarbon dated to the Pre-Roman and Early Roman Iron Age indicate that the activities mainly belong to the same periods that the previously dated remains in the area. The results primarily show cultivation and settlement-related activ

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Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Uppsala University

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

Early neolithic – Roman iron age

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden, Motala Municipality, Fivelstad Parish

Geographic description: ÖG, Fivelsta,Sund 1:3 & 1:4, Russingstorp 1:6

Lowest geographic unit

Parish

Topic and keywords

Research area

History and Archaeology, Archaeology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

roman iron age, bronze age, early neolithic, neolithic

Publications
Dataset
Sund-Russingstorp

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Associated documentation

Description

The ZIP file consist of GIS files and an Access database with information about the excavations, findings and other metadata about the archaeological survey.

Version 1.1

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Citation

Stiftelsen Kulturmiljövård Mälardalen. Uppsala University (2014). Sund-Russingstorp. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.1. https://doi.org/10.5878/001699

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Data format / data structure

Geospatial

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Stiftelsen Kulturmiljövård Mälardalen

Keywords

neolithic, early neolithic, bronze age, roman iron age

Time period(s) investigated

Early neolithic – Roman iron age

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Field observation
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2009-09
  • Data collector: Stiftelsen Kulturmiljövård Mälardalen

Type of archaeological remains

Settlement

Intrasisprojekt

KM09013

Länsstyrelsens dnr för projektet

431-2420-09

Producents dnr för projektet

KM09013

ProjektID

p0509009

Published: 2012-06-13
Last updated: 2016-10-06