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Bruno Berson Fig. 7: Plan of the farm at Gröf After Gísli Gestsson, 1959. cattle. An adjacent floor was excavated to the south of the byre, masuring 4 x 3,3 m and this was interpreted as a bam which seems to have had a separate entrance (Kristján Eldjárn & Gísli Gestsson 1952). A few years after the Bergþórshvoll exca- vation Gisli Gestsson started archaeolog- ical investigations at Gröf in Öræfi (Gísli Gestsson 1959). This region had been densely settled in the Middle Ages but was devastated by an eruption in Öræfa- jökull in 1362, leaving only a handful of farms. One of the farms which were abandoned completely as a result of the eruption was Gröf. The ruins were buried under a thick layer of pumice and were remarkably well preserved. Three buildings were excavated, a dwelling complex with 6 rooms, a kiln-house and a byre with barn situated some 50 m east of the dwelling (Figure 7). The byre and the barn were built togeth- er on a northeast-southwest axis (fígure 8). The entrance was on the south end gable and lead to the byre. This was divided into three aisles and along the west wall 5 stalls were still visible, divid- ed by 4 upright slabs. No stall divisions could be seen along the eastern wall. The byre measured 8 x 3,70 m on the inside. The aisle in the centre part was fully paved and lead from the entranceway to the barn in the northern part of the struc- ture. The barn was also divided into three aisles by two parallel rows of postpads. It measured 12,6 x 3,8 m on the inside. The floor of the structure sloped some 2 m from the northern end of the bam to the entrance of the byre. The site of Gjáskógar in Þjórsárdalur was excavated in 1949, 1952 and 1960 by Kristján Eldjám (Kristján Eldjárn 1961). It is situated in the upper reaches of the valley at 300 m above the sea level - high above the main settlement area on the valley floor (Figure 9). Like 42
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