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FORNFRØÐILIG RANNSÓKN í UPPISTOVUBEITINUM í LEIRVIK

. Securing the preservation of the numerous wooden

finds was a financial headache, however thanks to a

subsidy from Føroya Fornminnagrunnur, Tórshavn,

a great number of selected wooden implements could

be preserved by the Danish National Museum's De-

partment for Woodpreservation in Brede. The re-

mainder of wooden implements will be preserved by

the Faroese National Museum's own conservator

Súsanna Joensen.

. Thanks to financial support from Vísindagrunnur

Føroya Sparikassa, Tórshavn, Claus Malmros of the

National Museum's Department of Natural Science,

Copenhagen, has kindly agreed to analyse the

botanical - that is timber - remains from the site. Cur-

rently 90 find numbers have been wood-analysed in:

»Woodanalysis of wooden implements from í Uppi-

stovubeitinum, Leirvík, the Faroe Islands. Fmnr.

6705/SNR:4815 - NNU A.7709. Claus Malmros The

National Museum's Department of Natural Sciences

June 17th 1997.« The data presented in this article

stems herefrom.

. Jan Bill, The National Museum's Marinarchaeo-

logical Reasearch Department, Roskilde, has kindly

agreed to identify a selection of the metal finds.

. Dorete Bloch, Føroya Náttúrugripasavn (The Faroese

Museum of Natural History), Tórshavn, has kindly

analysed the teeth material in order to determine the

species present. She has also agreed to analyse the

collection of animal bones.

. The dating was kindly performed by Káre Lund Ras-

mussen, Carbon-14 Laboratory, The National Muse-

um - Denmark and Greenland's Geological Depar-

tment.

K-6629: (Juniperus) 745 ± 45 14C-years pre - 1950

K-6630: (Patella vulgata) 520 ± 50 14C-years pre -

1950

. I have presented these thougths before, the last time in

1995, see Arge, 1997.