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GIS-material for the archaeological project: Burial and settlement area in Hästholmen

SND-ID: SND 2027

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Östergötland County Museum, Archaeology department

Description

The information in the abstract is translated from the archaeological report:
By request of Ödeshög municipality, the County Museum of Östergötland performed a field evaluation of the property Hästholmen 7:1, during August and September 2009. The evaluation took place within the burial and settlement area RAÄ 236. Approx. 270 features were discovered, consisting of graves, cultural layers and settlement features, of which five cremation graves, one inhumation grave and approx. 70 settlement features were excavated. Finds of pottery and iron and stone objects and were collected. There are two chronological phases, with the settlement remains dating to the Early bronze Age, and the graves dating to the Early Iron Age and the transition between the Pre-Roman and the Roman Iron Age.

Purpose:

The information in the purpose is translated from the archaeological report:
The purpose of the field evaluation was to describe the character, dating and extent of the archaeological remains, and to investigate the connection to other known ancient monuments in the vicinity. The result will be used as a bas

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Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Uppsala University

Responsible department/unit

Archaeology department

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

Early iron age

Early bronze age

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden, Ödeshög Municipality, Västra Tollstad Parish

Geographic description: Östergötland, Västra Tollstad, Hästholmen 7:1

Lowest geographic unit

Parish

Topic and keywords

Research area

HISTORY (CESSDA Topic Classification)
History and Archaeology, Archaeology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

early iron age, early bronze age

Publications
Dataset
Hästholmen

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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

Östergötland County Museum, Archaeology department. Uppsala University (2014). Hästholmen. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.1. https://doi.org/10.5878/001714

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Data format / data structure

Geospatial

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Östergötland County Museum, Archaeology department

Keywords

early iron age

Time period(s) investigated

Early iron age

Early bronze age

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Field observation
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2009-08
  • Data collector: Östergötland County Museum, Archaeology department

Type of archaeological remains

Settlement area , Burial ground

Intrasisprojekt

OLM2009007

Länsstyrelsens dnr för projektet

431-4414-09

Producents dnr för projektet

180/09

ProjektID

p509013

Published: 2012-11-21
Last updated: 2016-10-06