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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: snd2465-1. Version: 1.0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/002837

Citation

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Research principal

Uppsala University rorId

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.

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.

Data contains personal data

No

Language

Method and outcome

Time period(s) investigated

Data format / data structure

Type of archaeological investigation

Archaeological excavation, Provundersökning

Type of archaeological remains

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

Data collection

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
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

Administrative information

Identifiers

Organisationens dnr för undersökningen: 4126/79

ProjektID: p180004

ProjektID: 180004

RAÄ-nr: Borg 168

Topic and keywords

Research area

History (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Archaeology (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)

Keywords

Ceramics, Neolithic, Middle neolithic, Late neolithic, Iron age, Early iron age, Late iron age, Vendel era, Viking age, Bergartsyxa (swe), C-datering, Flint

Publications
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Versions

Version 1.0. 2015-12-07

Version 1.0: 2015-12-07

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/002837

Published: 2015-12-07
Last updated: 2020-01-23