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ICELANDIC FARMHOUSE EXCAVATIONS: FlELD METHODS AND SITE CHOICES
Fieldwork dates Site status Notes on dating | Dating methods | References
ll,h-12,hc.
Herjólfsdalur 1971-83 Middle tephra, C14, typology Hermanns- Auðardóttir 1989
Snjáleifartóttir 1939 Low-middle tephra, typology Stenberger 1943c
Sveigakot 1999- Low tephra, C14 Vésteinsson2001, 2002,2003
The Þjórsárdalur controversy — ll,h or 13,h century?
Áslákstunga innri 1895 Middle typology Erlingsson 1899
Áslákstunga fremri 1939 Low-Middle typology Stenberger 1943a
Gjáskógar 1949, 1952, 1960 Low tephra Eldjárn 1961
Undir Lambhöfða 1895 Middle typology Erlingsson 1899
Sámsstaðir 1895,1971-72 Middle tephra Erlingsson 1899, Rafnsson 1977
Skeljastaðir 1939 Middle- High tephra Þórðarson 1943
Stöng 1939, 1982-83, 1986,1992-93 Middle- High tephra, artefacts Roussell 1943b, Vilhjálmsson 1989
Þórarinsstaðir 1945 Low-Middle tephra Eldjárn 1949
14,h century
Gröf | 1955-57 | Middle ] Aband. in 1362 | tephra | Gestsson 1959
15,h-16,h centuries
Foma-Lá 1942 Low typology, artefacts Eldjárn 1951,102-108
Kúabót 1972-76 Middle Tephra, artefacts, documents Gestsson et al. 1987
Reyðarfell 1960-69 Low-middle typology Grímsson 1976
17,h century
Sandártunga 1949 Low Abandoned in 1693 tephra, documents Eldjárn 1951,108-19
18,h i9th century
Aðalstræti 1971-75,2001- 2003 Middle 10th c tephra, artefacts, documents Nordahl 1988
Amarhóll 1993 Low-middle artefacts, documents Edvardsson 1995
Uncertain dating
Erpsstaðir 1895 Erlingsson 1899
Stórhólshlíð 1939 Voionmaa 1943a
tures which cannot be claimed to be dwellings or at least not the main dwellings of the farmstead in ques-
tion. These include Hörgsdalur in 1902 (Bruun & Olsen 1903; Bruun 1928, 48-53); Auðnugil in 1964
(Magnússon 1985), undir Hellisbjargi in 1967, 1971, 1981 (Eldjárn 1989, 112-127), Hjálmsstaðir in 1983-
85, pit-house (Ólafsson 1992); Breiðavík in 2000, pit-house (Ólafsson 2001), Lundur in 1939, byre and
barn (Voionmaa 1943b). Ongoing excavations include sites such as the Viking age settlements at
Hrísheimar and Vatnsfjörður, medieval settlement in Höfðagerði, late medieval and early modern monas-
tic settlements at Skriðuklaustur and Kirkjubœjarklaustur and the early modern episcopal mansions at
Skálholt and Hólar.
As no systematic research has been carried out in Iceland to define site status, the status ascribed to
individual sites in the table is largely informed guesswork based on the size of the structures, on the arte-
fact collections and to some extent on historical records.
References are given to printed reports and only to grey reports where nothing else has been published.
Bold lettering indicates that the reference is a final report.
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