Previous Archaeological Excavations along the 'Ostlänken' Railway Corridor 1965-2012: Four houses from the Early Iron Age

SND-ID: SND 2477

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Description

During the summer of 1191 the Swedish National Heritage Board UV East conducted archaeological investigation of settlement remain RAÄ 236 in Kallerstad due to the new road being built, Norra Länken.

445 features were discovered during the investigation. Most of them were part of four house constructions (House 1-4). Three of the houses (House 1-3) were elongated rectangular houses dated to Pre-Roman and Roman Iron Age. House 4 had a different construction than the others and was elongated with slightly bulged walls, dated to the Bronze Age.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Uppsala University

Commissioning organisation

Linköping Municipality, Gatukontoret

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

Pre-roman iron age – Roman iron age

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Linköping Sankt Lars Parish

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

finds

Publications

Type of archaeological investigation

Archaeological assessment, Archaeological assessment

Dataset
Four houses from the Early Iron Age

Description

The ZIP-file contains three shapefiles with information on trenches, ancient monuments, archaeological finds and other data from the archaeological survey, as well as one geo-referenced map (© Lantmäteriet i2014/00696) of the survey in GeoTIFF-format.

Version 1.0

Citation

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst. Uppsala University (2020). Four houses from the Early Iron Age. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/nwez-5d76

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Data format / data structure

Still image

Geospatial

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Data collection 1

  • Mode of collection: Field observation
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 1991-07-15–1991-08-29
  • Data collector: Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Data collection 2

  • Mode of collection: Compilation/Synthesis
  • Time period(s) for data collection: 2014–2014
  • Data collector: Uppsala University, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.

Type of archaeological remains

Settlement , House , Hearth , Post hole

Producents dnr för projektet

4355/91

ProjektID

p591004

Rapport nr

UV Öst 1999:39

License

Creative Commons  Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Published: 2020-01-21
Last updated: 2020-01-23