Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2007, Blaðsíða 63

Ancient ironmaking in Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland
Figure 6. A map showing known bloomery sites and medieval settlements in the north of Iceland
(Hermanns-Auðardóttir 1999). On this map 28 bloomeries are shown as points in Fnjóskadalur.
Notice Gásir in the west.
700 to 1500 AD. This presentation attempts
to show details from the production in the
Akureyri region in the north, more precise-
ly in the valley Fnjóskadalur, named after
the river Fnjóská, which runs into the fjord
Eyjafjörður. Nielsen also visited this valley
and refers to 14 places with finds of slag. In
this paper three sites will be treated in detail.
In addition small finds from Sandartunga
in Þjórsárdalur in the south are included. A
few I4C dates of charcoal from slag heaps
will also be presented. In 1998 a confer-
ence devoted to the port of trade at Gásir
was organized in Trondheim, Norway. On
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