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Blog of the Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey

July 11, 2013
by Kathryn Catlin
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SCASS 2013 season

Welcome to the SCASS 2013 season! We have a new acronym for a new project: the Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey is joining with the Skagafjörður Heritage Museum (Byggðasafn Skagfirðinga) to form the Skagafjörður Church And Settlement Survey (SCASS). This year … Continue reading

August 2, 2012
by Kathryn Catlin
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My last day

Today was my last day of fieldwork in Iceland for 2012!  (Don’t worry, everyone else is staying for a few more days, and they’ll keep blogging.)  I’m sorry to leave just when so many exciting things are coming in to … Continue reading

July 26, 2012
by Kathryn Catlin
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Excavation at Seyla

Over the past few days, we’ve started to clear off the churchyard wall and some of the other buried features at Seyla.  We’re slowly mapping out the features that correspond to the anomalies we’ve seen in the geophysical results, including … Continue reading

July 21, 2012
by Kathryn Catlin
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Trying out the DUALEM

Today we finished our first survey with the DUALEM-21.  This is just half of the 4-meter-long DUALEM-421 – the instrument that John brought on the bus from Reykjavik.  Tomorrow we’ll be surveying the grid at Seyla again in the opposite … Continue reading

July 30, 2009
by Kathryn Catlin
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Pollen sampling

With the arrival of Heather and Sue, the coring team has morphed into the pollen team!  For the last week we’ve been coring at Meðalheimur, finding locations with good tephra sequences.  So far we’ve finished taking samples from four 1×1 … Continue reading

July 15, 2009
by Kathryn Catlin
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One-by-Ones everywhere

Emily and Rita have been digging 1×1-meter test pits in farm mounds all over Skagafjorður, looking for midden dating from about 1000 AD or earlier.  They finished the pit at Kjartansstaðir today!  Here’s Emily waving from inside the farm mound, … Continue reading

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