Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst
Description
The information in the abstract is translated from the archaeological report:
During winter 2004 and spring 2005 the Swedish National Heritage Board's Contract Archaeology Division, UV Öst, performed a field evaluation in central Norrköping, due to trenching works for district cooling. The trenching affected the medieval and early modern city layers, RAÄ 96. Both cultural layers from the 17th and 18th century and graves from the Middle Ages and the early modern period, belonging to Saint Olai church, were found. Waste and demolition layers as well as ground preparation layers were found on Skolgatan street. Part of the street has probably been located only a block away from Saint Olai church during the late Middle Ages/early modern period. The layers date to the 17th century, both from before and after the street regulation that took place during the second part of the century. No traces of older street stretches or of the known city fires were found. South-east of the church, graves from the medieval and early modern cemetery were discovered. A ditch west of the graves might represent the cem
Language
Swedish
Research principal
Data contains personal data
No
Time period(s) investigated
Historic time
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Sweden, Norrköping Municipality, Sankt Johannes Parish
Geographic description: Östergötland, St Johannes, S:t Olai cemetery
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)
Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst
Keywords
Time period(s) investigated
Historic time
Type of archaeological remains
Intrasisprojekt
AO2004101
Länsstyrelsens dnr för projektet
431-13164-04
Producents dnr för projektet
422-3307-2004
ProjektID
p504011