Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags

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Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 01.01.1970, Page 44

Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 01.01.1970, Page 44
48 ÁRBÓK FORNLEIFAFÉLAGSINS RITASKRÁ Óprentað: Landsbókasafn — J. Sig. 143, 4to. Þjóðskjalasafn — Biskupsskjalasafn, Bps. AII, 1. — afskrift dr. Jóns Þorkelssonar af AM 459, fol. Prentað: Björn Lárusson (1967) The Old Icelandic Land Registers. Lund. Dipl. Isl. III, IV, XII. Diplomatarium Islandicum. íslenzkt fornbréfasafn, sem hefir inni að halda bréf, gjörninga, dóma og máldaga og aðrar skrár, er snerta Island og islenzka menn. (1857 o. áfr.). Kaupmannahöfn og Reykjavík. Louis Ehlers (1967) Dansk Lert0j. Kobenhavn. Elisabet Fex (1954) Flaskor. (Kulturen 1953). Luhd. Sigurd Grieg (1933) Middelalderske byfund fra Bergen og Oslo. Oslo. Safn til sögu Islands. I, IV Safn til sögu íslands og íslenzkra bókmennta að fornu og nýju. (1856 o. áfr.) Kaupmannahöfn og Reykjavík. Sigilla Islandica II (1967). Reykjavík. Sigurður Thorarinsson (1944) Tefrokronologiska studier pá Island (Medde- lande frán Geografiska Institutet vid Stockholms Högskola. N:o 66.). Stockholm. Sigurður Þórarinsson (1967) The Eruptions of Hekla in Historical Times. A Tephrochronological Study. (The Eruption of Hekla 1947—1948. I.). Reykja- vík. S U M M A R Y Report on the excavation of a late medieval church at Varmá. 1. Excavation of the house-remains and their description. The excavation was mainly carried out in the summer 1968 at Varmá, Mos- fellssveit (about 15 km from Reykjavík), where there was known from literary sources to have been a small church in the middle ages. A small mound neai' the ruins of the now deserted farm Varmá was the object of excavation. This mound, which consisted of turf and stones, building materials accumulated through the ages, proved to contain the remains of three houses, built one after another, all with the same orientation. The criteria for distinguishing the house-remains from one another rest mainly upon observation of the stonerows, which are the foundations of tui'f-walls (the two upper houses lacked turf-walls, probably because of the mound later being brought under cultivation), as well as of the floor-layers in their context of turf and stones. The uppermost and youngest house was a small shed, the floor only about 1,5x3 meters and paved with stones. The middle house, the remains of which are in many ways difficult to interpret, has most likely been a smithy. In its northwest corner there was a small pit filled with ash and small stones. Iron slag was found in the doorway and the western part of the floor. The material of the floor was earth. A volcanic ash-layer was found under the stone-foundations on both sides of the doorway and of the east gable. The deepest lying and oldest of the houses was a late medieval church. Small as it was, the floor only about 3x5 meters,
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