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Summary
Viking age burial field at Hrífunes, Skaftártunga district Southern-
Iceland
In the summer of 2010 The Cultural Heritage Agency of Iceland (Minjastofnun
Íslands) was contacted by Gísli Halldór Magnússon, who reported that erosion
by the Hólmsá river had exposed a row of stones below the old home-field at
the farm of Hrífunes in Skaftártunga. Five Pagan Viking burials (kuml) had been
excavated or reported in this area between 1958 and 1982 (see Árbók Hins íslenzka
fornleifafélags 1983), and it was therefore deemed of the utmost importance to
investigate the area. The excavation of the site was the carried out in the summer
of 2011, after the river had changed its course making access possible.
The excavation revealed two further kuml at Hrífunes. Kuml 6 had been
severely damaged by the erosion by Hólmsá, with only a small part of the western
end of the burial setting preserved. This consisted of a row of stones marking a
turf mound. Although some structural elements were present under the mound,
postholes and a small trench, the burial itself was not preserved. The location of