There is now a wonderful video from Guðný’s resent drone flight over the Keflavík church and burial ground that SCASS is excavating.  When the white ash layer that exploded from Mount Hekla in 1104 AD fell back to earth it … Continue reading →

The  Municipality of Skagafjörður has a web page that announces the beginning of the Skagafjörður Chruch and Settlement Survey (SCASS).  It has a great drone picture of the cemetery at Keflavík.  The Skagafjörður Heritage Museum also has a web page … Continue reading →

Brian Damiata was surveying with the CMD Explorer at Hegranesþing on a beautiful summer day.  Hegranesþing is one of the Quarter Assemblies.  It was a huge survey grid, and Brian walked over 18 km.  Allison Carlton recorded the survey and … Continue reading →

I am sure there are some better pictures of the church to come from the drones and kites, but for now here is one  I took looking east from the top of the old farm mound of Kevlavík.  You can … Continue reading →

We took a short trip to on Sunday out to Drangey and saw the wonderful bird life, including puffins. 

For the past three days, we have been excavating a 1x2m test pit at Ás to determine the date of the earliest occupation of the site as determined by the presence of cultural material in relation to the tephra layers, … Continue reading →

This year there is a lot less paper blowing around because much of the data we are collecting goes straight into FileMaker.  Eric and Kat have done a great job of setting up a series of databases that make inputting … Continue reading →

The Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey now has a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/icelandscass

The Skagafjörður Archaeological Settlement Survey has joined forces with the Skagafjörður Folk Museum to form the Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey! New name, new blog. We have a lot of exciting research already in progress this summer – watch this … Continue reading →