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GIS-material for the archaeological project: The urban cultivated lands of Skänninge

SND-ID: SND 2058

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Description

The information in the abstract is translated from the archaeological report:
Due to the planned construction of a new train station in Skänninge, Mjölby municipality, the Swedish National Heritage Board's contract archaeology division, UV Öst, performed a preliminary investigation beside the existing station in November 2005. Skänninge is seen as being one of the central places of Östergötland County already in the Late Iron Age and Early Middle Ages. Recent excavations have also indicated that the place has had central functions already in the Early Iron Age. The historical maps show that the investigated area is situated on what was once cultivated land belonging to the city of Skänninge, at least from the 17th century and onwards. Most of the remains found during the excavating are connected to agriculture. A few features were found that might be older than the agricultural layers, but that are difficult to interpret. One of them, a shallow pit or the remains of cultural layer, has been dated to the late Bronze Age/early Iron Age. East of the railway are modern layers of soil, as thick as

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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

Late bronze age – Historic time

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden, Mjölby Municipality, Allhelgona Parish

Geographic description: Östergötland, Allhelgona parish, the railway station area in Skänninge

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

late bronze age, iron age, historical period, middle ages

Publications
Dataset
The urban cultivated lands of Skänninge

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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

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst. Uppsala University (2014). The urban cultivated lands of Skänninge. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.1. https://doi.org/10.5878/001849

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Data format / data structure

Geospatial

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Keywords

iron age, middle ages, historical period

Time period(s) investigated

Late bronze age – Historic time

Data collection

  • Mode of collection: Field observation
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2005-11
  • Data collector: Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Type of archaeological remains

Agrarian remains , Railway remains

Intrasisprojekt

AO2005052

Länsstyrelsens dnr för projektet

431-6278-05

Producents dnr för projektet

422-1740-2005

ProjektID

p505005

Published: 2012-11-21
Last updated: 2016-07-07