Archaeologia Islandica - 01.01.2010, Page 89

RECONSTRUCTING ASPECTS OF THE DAILY LIFE IN LATE 19TH AND EARLY
20TH-CENTURY ICELAND: ARCHAEOENTOMOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE
VATNSFÖRÐUR FARM, NW ICELAND
2008,72-75). Moreover, midden deposits
containing numerous físh and mammal
bones from one of the rooms of the build-
ing were excavated (group 8562). On the
south side of the house, the entrance and
its associated corridor were possibly
identified (Ævarsson & Gísladóttir 2008,
75-76).
A map dating to 1913 (Fig. 3), pro-
vides insight into life at Vatnsfjörður dur-
ing the Early Modem Period. This map
identifies various farm buildings on the
site at this time, including a farmhouse, a
church, storage buildings, a cowshed, a
bam, a stable and sheephouses.
Descriptions of some of these buildings
and activities that took place on the site
may be found in the autobiography of
Tryggvi Þorsteinsson, who moved to
Vatnsfjörður in 1929 as a child. According
summers of2007 and 2008 on the farm mound at Vatnsfjörður.
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