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Previous Archaeological Excavations along the 'Ostlänken' Railway Corridor 1965-2012: Gullvagnen - A Mesolithic inland settlement in northern Kolmården

SND-ID: SND 2479

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst

Description

An archaeological investigation of ancient monument RAÄ 85 in Krokek parish, Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland was conducted in October 1992 owing to the reconstruction of road E4 between Böksjö and Länsgränsen.

Gullvagnen (RAÄ 85) is most probably an inland settlement dating to the Mesolithic. During the investigation a number of features were discovered, including scattered stones and finds made of quartz and greenstone.

Language

Swedish

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Uppsala University

Commissioning organisation

Swedish Road Administration

Protection and ethical review

Data contains personal data

No

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

Mesoliticum

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Krokek 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, c-datering

Publications

Type of archaeological investigation

Archaeological assessment, Archaeological assessment

Dataset
Gullvagnen - A Mesolithic inland settlement in northern Kolmården

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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 two geo-referenced maps (© Lantmäteriet i2014/00696) of the survey in GeoTIFF-format.

Version 1.0

Citation

Swedish National Heritage Board, UV Öst. Uppsala University (2020). Gullvagnen - A Mesolithic inland settlement in northern Kolmården. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/j2pv-m981

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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: 1992-10-02–1992-10-10
  • Data collector: Swedish National Heritage Board UV Mitt

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

Feature , Settlement

Producents dnr för projektet

7424/94

ProjektID

p592002

Rapport nr

UV Mitt 1999:17

License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Published: 2020-01-22
Last updated: 2020-01-23