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Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 05.01.1986, Qupperneq 37

Árbók Hins íslenzka fornleifafélags - 05.01.1986, Qupperneq 37
KÚABÓT í ÁLFTAVERI VIII 99 og alla lcið eftir forstofu og út á hlað. Stétt var utan við bæjarhúsin og sömuleiðis lá stétt til kirkju, sem var frammi á hlaði. Voru veggir hennar hlaðnir úr grjóti á þrjá vegu, en timburstafn til vcsturs. Merki voru um timburgólf í tóttinni og leifar timburþils. Leifar af garði voru sunnan kirkju og gangstétt í suður frá suðurkampi. Sködduð tótt var norðvestan við húsin og hefur þar verið einhvers konar útihús. Margir munir fundust við rannsóknina cða samtals 564 tölusett númer. Þar á meðal er nokkuð af timburleifum, sem varpa ljósi á inn- réttingu stofu og skála. Sáir voru í búri og í salernistótt var stórt stcin- ker. í kirkju fundust m.a. tvær eirskálar, lítið Maríulíkneski og lcir- kerabrot. Auðséð var að bærinn í Kúabót hefur farið í eyði í jökulhlaupi. Lík- legt cr talið, að það hafi verið í kjölfar eldgoss í Kötlu undir lok 15. aldar. Að lokum vil ég þakka þeim Guðrúnu Sveinbjarnardóttur og Kristínu H. Sigurðardóttur, scm báðar unnu við uppgröftinn, fyrir góðar ábendingar. Einnig þeim Þór Magnússyni og Halldóri |. Jónssyni, scm báðir lásu skýrsluna í handriti og færðu margt til betri vegar. SUMMARY Report on tlie excavation of a medieval farm in Álftaver in south-eastern lceland. The cxcavation took placc during thc summers of 1972-1976. It was lcd by Gísli Gcstsson, but hc dicd in the autumn of 1984, bcforc hc had fully complctcd his work on thc material discovcrcd and a papcr on thc cxcavation. Chaptcr I on houscs A and B and chaptcr III on housc F as wcll as notcs on woodcn remains in chaptcr VIII arc all writtcn by him. Hc had also complctcd all thc drawings; somc of thcm, howcvcr, havc bccn redrawn for tliis publication. With thc exception of chaptcr on ruin I by Guðrún Svcin- bjarnardóttir, Lilja Árnadóttir has written thc rcst of the papcr basing hcr work on Gcstsson’s diarics, drawings and photographs. Thc cxcavation-sitc is situatcd in thc Álftavcr district which has mostly becn formcd by dcposits from thc glacicr Mýrdalsjökull. Thc sitc was discovercd around 1950, subscqucnt to the denudation there of a high sandwavc grown with lymegrass. The sandwavc had bccn callcd Kúabót and tliat namc has bcen transfcrrcd to thc ruins. Thc namc docs not appcar in written sources on the Álftavcr district. Kúabót lics south cast from the volcano Katla. Coinciding witli eruptions in Katla thcrc occur sudden rises in thc ncighbouring rivcrs, which all lcad towards Álftaver. At prcscnt thcrc arc only nine farms inhabited in thc district. Thc cxcavation madc clcar that thc farm has bccn dcscrtcd in a glacicr burst, which gcologists considcr may plausibly havc occurrcd in 1490. Thc farm complcx is dividcd into seven houses bcsides thc passage (E) lcading to thc houses at the back, thc little church (K) in front of the farm and a destroyed ruin (1) of somc kind of an outhouse north west of thc farm. Counting from east thc houscs arc
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