Previous Archaeological Excavations along the 'Ostlänken' Railway Corridor 1965-2012: Tomb and settlement, village site and clearance cairns as well as an older road embankment

SND-ID: SND 2464

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board UV Mitt

Description

Tomb and settlement, village site and clearance cairns as well as an older road embankment

Purpose:

This study aimed to determine the prevalence and nature of ancient monuments along European route E4 between Bäckeby and Lövstad, as expansion of the road was planned.

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

Early iron age

Historic time

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Norrköping Municipality, Kimstad Parish, Skärkind Parish

Geographic description: European route E4 between Bäckeby and Lövstad storskog

Lowest geographic unit

Parish

Highest geographic unit

Parish

Topic and keywords
Publications

Claréus, C. m fl. Grav och boplats, bytomt och odlingsrösen samt äldre vägbank. Prov- del- och slutundersökning längs E4:an. Delen Bäckeby-Lövstad storskog, Skärkinds och Kimstads socknar, Östergötland. ATA-Rapport. Dnr 3426/83

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Type of archaeological investigation

Partial archaeological investigation, Provundersökning

Dataset
Tomb and settlement, village site and clearance cairns as well as an older road embankment

Description

The ZIP file contains data in Shape format with information on trenches, features and finds, and other metadata from the archaeological excavation, as well as geo-referenced maps of the excavation area in GeoTIFF format

Version 1.0

Citation

Swedish National Heritage Board UV Mitt. Uppsala University (2015). Tomb and settlement, village site and clearance cairns as well as an older road embankment. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002733

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Data format / data structure

Still image

Geospatial

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board UV Mitt

Time period(s) investigated

Early iron age

Historic time

Collection methodology

Analogue maps have been digitalized and georeferenced in ArcMap 10

Data collection 1

  • Mode of collection: Field observation
  • Description of the mode of collection: Analogue maps have been digitalized and georeferenced in ArcMap 10
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1983-05–1984-07
  • Data collector: Swedish National Heritage Board UV Mitt

Data collection 2

  • Mode of collection: Compilation/Synthesis
  • Description of the mode of collection: Analogue maps have been digitalized and georeferenced in ArcMap 10
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2014
  • Data collector: Uppsala university, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History

Länsstyrelsens dnr för undersökningen

11.391-851-83

Organisationens dnr för undersökningen

3426/83

ProjektID

p584001

584001

RAÄ-nr

Kimstad 206

Kimstad 81

Skärkind 358

Skärkind 260

Published: 2015-10-21
Last updated: 2020-01-23