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THE SVALBARÐ PROJECT
Figure 9. Shieling ruins north of Svartárkot in Þingeyjarsýsla (Bruun 1897:281). The Svartárkot
site plan resembles the Þorvaldsstaðasel ruin cluster.
winter (Þormóðsson 1970, 67).
During fieldwork in Bægistaðir in
mid-June 2011 the cold was biting due to
dry northerly winds, with the temperature
not rising above 2° C. Because the
ground had not fully thawed, the land
was wet with undrained runoff and it was
not possible to walk a direct route. The
walk from Kúða took 4 hours. At Kúðá
there were still isolated snow-banks, but
the snow became heavier further inland.
In Bægistaðir there was a build-up of
Figure 10. A sketch map of stratigraphic sections and soil core tests at Bœgistaðir.
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