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
Language
Swedish
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Archaeology department
Data contains personal data
No
Time period(s) investigated
Early iron age
Early bronze age
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden, Ödeshög Municipality, Västra Tollstad Parish
Geographic description: Östergötland, Västra Tollstad, Hästholmen 7:1
Lowest geographic unit
Parish
Research area
HISTORY
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
History and Archaeology, Archaeology
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
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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.Citation
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Data format / data structure
Geospatial
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Östergötland County Museum, Archaeology department
Keywords
Time period(s) investigated
Early iron age
Early bronze age
Type of archaeological remains
Intrasisprojekt
OLM2009007
Länsstyrelsens dnr för projektet
431-4414-09
Producents dnr för projektet
180/09
ProjektID
p509013