[MR] Viking Discovery Archaeological Field courses

[Sharon Gordon]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Carlsson" <info at arkeodok.com>
To: <VikingHistory at arkeodok.com>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:11 AM
Subject: Viking Discovery Archaeological Field courses

Dear Viking friends,
In the middle of winter, with half a meter snow outside my window and a
temperature well below freezing point, it is nice to start thinking of a
warm summer day, on one's knee looking into the daily life of the Viking
People! We are getting closer to the summer's programme about the
archaeological field courses on the island of Gotland, Sweden.

For some years, we have been excavating the Viking Port of trade at Frojel,
with some tremendous fascinating discoveries (among all, we have now
registrered som 33 000 objects in our database and excavated about 100
graves). The excavations are now finished, and we will start a new project,
while at the same time working on reports about Frojel.

Now the time has come to get a better picture of the houses and farms in
Viking Age. It might seem strange, but in spite of the tremendous rich
material from Viking Age from Gotland, we know rather little about houses
and farms. So, for som years to come, we will carry out designated studies
of houses from Viking Age.

Coming summer, we will start to investigate a farm up in the northern part
of Gotland, where a silver hoard from Viking Age was found a few years ago,
containing more then a 1000 coins. The hoard was found in a Viking Age
house, and now we will investigate the remains of the hoard and try to get a
better idea about house constructions etc.

We are now opening up for application to our courses, that will take place
in July and August in a bit different ways. Please check out the information
and application form at http://www.arkeodok.com/Discoveryprogramme.html.

I would very much appreciate any help you can give me to spread the
information about the course. If you have any questions, please don't
hesitate to contact me. Hope to see you next summer at a fascinating
excavation site!

Dan Carlsson