Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Swedish National Heritage Board UV Mitt
Description
In October 1987, a small cemetery at Gerstaberg, Ytterjärna parish, Södermanland, was investigated & removed (Ancient monument 185). The excavation was preceeded by a trial excavation in order to establish whether the monuments were indeed ancient. Existing records showed a mound-like and a stone-setting-like structure.
The trial excavations revealed that the mound-like structure was modern, while the stone-setting like structure was in fact a group of burials, consisting of a square stone-setting and two or three smaller stone-settings. The subsequent investigation brought to light further burials, bringing the total to 17.
All graves has cremation burials, although the mode of burial was varied. Osteological analyses brought forth that all burials were adult, though none could be sexed. Four features lacked burials, and may have been children's graves. One feature (A18) may not have been a grave at all.
Burial assemblages consisted mainly of pottery, both as bone receptacles and as subsidiary vessels. The pottery is of typical Iron Age type.
The graves were dated to the Early Iron age, p
Subject area
HISTORY
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Archaeology
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
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Responsible department/unit
Uppsala University
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Swedish National Heritage Board UV Mitt
Identifiers
SND-ID: SND 2460
Description
In October 1987, a small cemetery at Gerstaberg, Ytterjärna parish, Södermanland, was investigated & removed (Ancient monument 185). The excavation was preceeded by a trial excavation in order to establish whether the monuments were indeed ancient. Existing records showed a mound-like and a stone-setting-like structure.
The trial excavations revealed that the mound-like structure was modern, while the stone-setting like structure was in fact a group of burials, consisting of a square stone-setting and two or three smaller stone-settings. The subsequent investigation brought to light further burials, bringing the total to 17.
All graves has cremation burials, although the mode of burial was varied. Osteological analyses brought forth that all burials were adult, though none could be sexed. Four features lacked burials, and may have been children's graves. One feature (A18) may not have been a grave at all.
Burial assemblages consisted mainly of pottery, both as bone receptacles and as subsidiary vessels. The pottery is of typical Iron Age type.
The graves were dated to the Early Iron age, p
Language
Swedish
Time period(s) investigated
Early iron age
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Södertälje Municipality, Ytterjärna Parish
Geographic description: Gerstaberg
Lowest geographic unit
Parish
Highest geographic unit
Parish
Subject area
HISTORY
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Archaeology
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
Type of archaeological investigation
Archaeological excavation
Associated documentation
Version 1.0
2016-08-17
https://doi.org/10.5878/002840
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Organisationens dnr för undersökningen
1261/87
ProjektID
187001
p187001
RAÄ-nr
Ytterjärna 185:1, Ytterjärna 185:2
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Swedish National Heritage Board UV Mitt
Description
Keywords
Data format / data structure
Still image
Geospatial
Type of archaeological remains
Data collection
Mode of collection: Field observation
Time period(s) for data collection: 1987-10
Data collector: Swedish National Heritage Board
Mode of collection: Compilation/Synthesis
Time period(s) for data collection: 2014
Data collector: Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, avdelningen för etnologi
Time period(s) investigated
Early iron age