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Testimony of the spadeTestimony of the spadeTestimony of the spade skrivs på engelska av en svensk arkeolog och osteolog, Magnus Reuterdahl. Bloggen handlar mestadels om arkeologi, kulturmiljövård, runologi, osteologi m.m. Mestadels rör bloggen de fornlämningar jag besöker, böcker och artiklar jag för tillfället läser eller om det jag jobbar med. Artiklar
Mellingeholm
2009-12-01 04:12:00 Now what is Mellingeholm and perhaps more important where is it? Mellingeholm is a property ca 65 km northwest of Stockholm and a few km south of Norrtälje in Frötuna parish. At the moment I participate in a archaeological preliminary investigation, step two in the Swedish exploratory archaeological process. During which our aim is primary to delimit ...
Project fill my already overcrowded shelves with more books continues?
2009-10-05 05:51:00 A few weeks ago I bought a few ?new? books. One of the books is Mysteriernas bok : kulturhist. framställning af alla tiders och folkslags hemliga samfund och ordnar by Otto Henne-am-Rhyn (1828-1914), printed in Stockholm by Ulrik Fredriksson 1891. The English title is History of the Secret Doctrines and Mystic Rites of Ancient Religions and ...
Report from within a monster
2009-09-22 17:17:00 I?ve begun reading Åsa M Larssons (Ting & Tankar) thesis; Breaking and Making Bodies and Pots: Material and Ritual Practices in Sweden in the Third Millennium BC. 400+ pages makes for a thick and heavy book and academia normally isn?t a light read but this is quite an easy read for an academic work. This is in part ...
Åsa Larsson is now a phd in archaeology
2009-09-21 03:46:00 Congratulations! I had the pleasure to attend Åsa M Larssons dissertation and she passed with flying colures, and she was kind enough to thank me personally in the thesis as well as some other bloggers, thanks! Cheers! Åsa a few seconds after she got the message that she was officially a PhD! As a present we (me and ...
Off to Uppsala
2009-09-18 10:10:00 Today is the day of truth for Åsa M Larsson at Ting & Tankar as she puts forward her thesis Breaking and Making Bodies and Pots. Material and Ritual Practices in South Sweden in the Third Millennium BC. I haven?t yet read the thesis but I?m looking forward to do so and to meet a lot of ...
New week, new book
2009-09-14 00:21:00 As I visited Jonkoping during the weekend I met with a friend from whom I use to buy or borrow books, this time he lent me William McIlvanney?s Laidlaw from 1977. The book is set in Glasgow and resolves around detective Laidlaw. I?ll get to you concerning the book. Now I am back in Tryserum to ...
Car swap
2009-09-06 23:48:00 Mayhap not the king of the road but? ?I say goodbye to my old faithful, a Mercedes 190 D 1993… …and hallo to a new companion, a Nissan Almera 2001. I?ll spend this week in Ostergotland and Smaland; on Monday and Tuseday we?ll (Arkeologicentrum) work on an archaeological investigation some miles southwest of Linköping and then back to ...
Three times bitten
2009-09-03 23:16:00 Being an archaeologist is dangerous work. You might trip and fall, you might get a tree branch in your eye, heavy machinery at digs present dangers, during some weeks elk hunters roam the woods etc. and then there are ticks (Ixodidae). In Sweden it?s most often Ixodes ricinus also known as the sheep tick or ...
Currently on my bed stand is?
2009-09-01 00:02:00 I?ve installed myself in my home for the coming weeks, in Tryserum a few miles south of Valdemarsvik in Smaland, Ostergotland County. My internet connection is uncertain at best, but right now it seems to work. So instead of surfing I?m glad to have brought a more analogue pleasure to kill time; books. On this trip I ... Mer om: Arkeologi
What?s happening here?
2009-08-28 12:04:00 Another week is coming towards its end and once again I?ll prepare myself to go home to Stockholm. The next couple of weeks I?ll be working in Ostergotland just south of Valdermarsvik doing an archaeological investigation for a wind farm. I and a colleague will conduct a survey of the area where we will visit ... Mer om: Arkeologi
Eddie Izzard on archaeology
2009-08-26 23:30:00 Natures/cultures present Four stone hearth # 74 lots of great posts, some humor (I?ve stole this youtubeclip of Eddie Izzard) and do you want to know more of the bejewelled penis enlarger, well the lets hold hands and be off to never never land? Magnus Reuterdahl
Indoor activities
2009-08-25 17:23:00 This week is all office work, I?ve finished a report on the survey in Lerum municipality, Västra götland county, we did earlier this summer. Currently I am working on preparations for a survey in Valdemarsvik municipality, Östergötland county, that?s to start next week. Preparing maps, studying the National Heritage Board´s database for archaeological sites and ...
Uppgränna 2009
2009-08-21 10:11:00 A few weeks ago I passed Uppgränna, a small community just north of Gränna on the east shore of lake Vättern. Uppgränna is a beautiful small community beneath the shadow of the ruin Brahehus. Brahehus was built in 1650 and destroyed in a fire 1708, more info and pictures can be seen here. Besides the view ...
Waiting for Åsa M Larssons?
2009-08-17 14:50:00 ?thesis act 1. Åsa M Larsson announces at her blog Ting & Tankar that she submitted her thesis to the printer and that the dissertation takes place on Friday 18th September at 13 Geijersalen, Hus 6, Engelska Parken Humanistiskt Center, Uppsala University. I will do my best to attend, a vacation request is sent. Åsa says that ...
Some links to Swedish archaeology
2009-08-14 15:34:00 An answer to Paulo at ArchaeoJobs In a comment I was asked a question concerning the archaeological profession in Sweden and I thought it would be easy to find some summaries at Riksantikvarieämbetet (the National Heritage Board); there is some information to be found there; the National Heritage Board in English though as I scaned through some pages ...
In Stockholm
2009-08-14 10:46:00 This week became somewhat ?short? as we worked fast in the field which led to an extra day in Stockholm ? not work free as I currently is writing a report on the work in Ravbacka ? but an extra day in my own bed never the less. Well, let?s go back to work! Magnus Reuterdahl ... Mer om: Arkeologi
Speed update
2009-08-12 19:41:00 Been a little tired these last few days (arcaheological jet lag?); the small excavtion in Ostergotland, Klockrike, gave nothing. We did a number of search shafts, which were more or less empty. All we found were some pieces bricks, normally you can find porcelain, scrap iron, glass, etc. but here it was basically completely empty. Then ... Mer om: stockholm , Västergötland
New week, new locality
2009-08-09 22:54:00 I have just arrived in Motala in Ostergotland for two days of work, a small archaeological investigation to delineate a settlement just outside of Motala. Then follow a couple of days of survey work in Lerums municipality, in the same area I was a month ago; Rävbacka because they want to use another area for wind energy ... Mer om: Arkeologi
Just another day at the job
2009-08-06 21:45:00 Today became an excruciating day, we started at 0800 and went home at 2100 but it was rewarding; we described and taken GPS coordinate points to make polygons etc on maps at three croft ruins, three fossilized fields and one abandoned farmstead with a medieval heritage. Though now I feel beat; a few cold ones and ...
Remains of colliers
2009-08-05 22:59:00 I?m a bit tired so the post is short; we saw a very nice collier site. These remains are common in the Swedish woodlands. Most often one find the remains of the process consisting of a charcoal bottom; it?s often round, ca 5-10 m in diam. and 0,2-0,5 m high and the ruins of a ...
Yet another day in the field
2009-08-04 20:41:00 The Skaftesfall survey continues, during our hunt for things ancient or at least old ones we found some of the woods own gold; Chanterelle (Cantharellus cibarius). Another fellow blogger and archaeologist, Martin Rundkvist, had some good luck searching for these a week ago, now it?s my turn. Some farms are still in use as this one. On our ...
Skaftesfall in Korsberga parish
2009-08-03 21:27:00 Then I am in Smaland again and up for some surveying around Skaftesfall some miles south of Vetlanda in Korsberga parish. Our livings quarters is a few miles south of the working area in a small community called Klavrestrom; in a former Klavrestoms Works that opened in 1736. A lot of the buildings are still standing and ...
What?s next?
2009-07-31 14:37:00 The weekend is coming up and I?m going home to Stockholm, I?ve got one more post on last week’s vacation to post, it?s coming on Saturday or Sunday at latest. Next week I?ll be working in Korsberga parish, Jonkoping County, Smaland with an archaeological investigation in an area where it is planned to build wind ...
Join the birthday party at A Hot Cup Of Joe
2009-07-29 22:53:00 Let?s celebrate A Hot Cup Of Joe by paying him a visit and take a bite of some of the cupcakes shaped as blogposts via the blog carnival Four Stone Hearth number 72. Hurry, its bad manors to be late! Magnus Reuterdahl
Summer vacation 2009 part 7; Lodose museum
2009-07-27 20:21:00 Last Wendsday we went to Vastergotland and Lodose museum, the plan were to go to Lodose (Lödöse) museum and then slowly return via the northen parts of Vastergotland to Jonkoping stopping at ancient monuments etc, the weather got a bit bad though so all we did was visiting the museum, which in itself was well worth the ... Mer om: Västergötland
Back at the office
2009-07-27 09:46:00 Lazy days are gone and it?s back to the grey everyday monotone work ? ohh no that?s right I?m an archaeologist ? so every day is fun day. Seriously no, but it?s a nice feeling to feel good about going back to work, even though some days are harder than others; for example when it ... Mer om: Arkeologi
Summer vacation 2009 part 6; Ostergotland
2009-07-25 22:26:00 On our way south we passed a few rune stones in Ostergotland. First out was Ög 190 in Vikingstad parish. It is dated to the 11th century and the inscription is ??erected this stone after Agute a good??. As you can see the rune stone has been mended but some fragments are missing. Next stop was the three ...
Summar vacation 2009 part 5; the grateful dead ed.
2009-07-24 13:51:00 Ro (Rö) church, the oldest parts are from the 13th century, within the church are murals on the walls and on the roof from the 15th century, the latest addition the church is the choir, added in 1747. The church was restored in 1950-51. Notice the large buttresses, built during the 16th or 17th century due ... Mer om: stockholm
Summer vacation part 4
2009-07-23 11:42:00 Next stop, and I still haven?t come past last Saturday so there?s a lot more to come, is Skederids church in Finsta, by some believed to been built by Saint Birgitta?s father Birger Persson and became a stop for pilgrims. The oldest part of the church is from the last part of the 13th century ... Mer om: stockholm , Arkeologi
Summer vacation 2009 part 3
Mer artiklar från denna bloggen:2009-07-21 21:38:00 Still keeping it in Stockholm County we visited Frotuna (Frötuna) church. It?s a beautiful church that reveals several rebuilding phases seated by the shoreline of Kyrksjön (The Church lake). The oldest parts are assumed to be from the 12th century, the choir was prolonged during the 13th century and the roof vaults are from the 15th ... Mer om: stockholm , Uppland 1-30, 31-60, 61-90, 91-120, 121-150 |
