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Previous Archaeological Excavations along the 'Ostlänken' Railway Corridor 1965-2012: Borg - an Iron Age kingdom (Borg's parish, RAÄ 168 & others)

SND-ID: SND 2465

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Description

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Purpose:

Due to an expansion of highway E4 between Norsholm and Norrköping a number of archaeological remains were affected. During the summer of 1988 a series of preliminary investigations took place in the affected area. During autumn of 1989 a number of archaeological investigations were conducted, based on information obtained from the preliminary investigations.

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

New / Younger stone age – Iron age

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Borg Parish

Geographic description: Area 1: RAÄ 168 Area 2: Borg's church, area between a minor gravel road and with the current Skärsblackavägen to the north. Area 3: Eksundsvägen, area west of ABV-road Area 4: Skärblackavägen, area sputh of RAÄ243 and north of Skärsblackavägen Area 5: area to the west of of area 2 and south of Skärsblackavägen.

Lowest geographic unit

Parish

Highest geographic unit

Parish

Topic and keywords

Research area

HISTORY (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Archaeology (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

ceramics, early iron age, flint, iron age, c-datering, neolithic, late neolithic, late iron age, viking age, vendel era, middle neolithic, bergartsyxa (swe)

Publications

Type of archaeological investigation

Archaeological excavation, Provundersökning

Dataset
Borg - an Iron Age kingdom (Borg's parish, Borg's church, RAÄ 168 & others)

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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 Öst. Uppsala University (2015). Borg - an Iron Age kingdom (Borg's parish, Borg's church, RAÄ 168 & others). Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/002837

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Data format / data structure

Still image

Geospatial

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Keywords

ceramics, neolithic, middle neolithic, late neolithic, iron age, early iron age, late iron age, vendel era, viking age, bergartsyxa (swe), c-datering, flint

Time period(s) investigated

New / Younger stone age – Iron age

Collection methodology

Analog drawings and plans have been digitised and georeferenced using ArcMap 10.

Data collection 1

  • Mode of collection: Field observation
  • Description of the mode of collection: Analog drawings and plans have been digitised and georeferenced using ArcMap 10.
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1988
  • Data collector: Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Data collection 2

  • Mode of collection: Field observation
  • Description of the mode of collection: Analog drawings and plans have been digitised and georeferenced using ArcMap 10.
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1989
  • Data collector: Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Data collection 3

  • Mode of collection: Compilation/Synthesis
  • Description of the mode of collection: Analog drawings and plans have been digitised and georeferenced using ArcMap 10.
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2014
  • Data collector: Uppsala university, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History

Type of archaeological remains

Feature , Settlement , Ancient monument , Natural feature , Grave, unknown type , Graves

Organisationens dnr för undersökningen

4126/79

ProjektID

p180004

180004

RAÄ-nr

Borg 168

Published: 2016-08-18
Last updated: 2020-01-23