The summer 2007 was the start of a new excavation project on the island of Gotland, Sweden, called Viking Discovery Programme. The project focus on the Viking farm itself. So far, there have been very few excavation concerning farmsteads, and the project aim at reaching a new and broad knowledge about the Viking Age farm on Gotland. Summer 2007, the course was carried out at a place called Klints, with some fascinating results, not at least in the form of well preserved wooden posts, dated to 1044-1050 AD. Summer 2012, we will look into the history of one of teh best preserved abandoned viking age-Early Middle Ages farmstead. Here is the chance to take part in a fashinating excavation programme. For more information, please visit our new home page at: www.gotland-fieldschool.com
Bringing history to life is our goal. We concentrate our work on mediating accurate knowledge concerning Vikings and Viking history. Our base is the Viking island of Gotland - a real centre in the Viking world.
Many years of archaeological excavations of farms and graves, as well as harbours from Viking time and Middle Ages have given us a good base for understanding the Vikings in all its different senses.
Gotland Silver Island!
I have many times been talking about the interesting fact of all the Viking silver hoards found on the island of Gotland (more then 700 until today, being 2/3 of all hoards from the whole of Sweden). Last autumn I made some investigations of places where silver hoards had been found earlier. Just to give you an example of what we found, please check out this pdf file. As an example of coins found at a site, there is a CD-R with detailed photos of each coin.
A Viking woman and her jewellery! The question of interpreting a grave and to understand how the objects were carried. Find out about the problems by clicking here!
Dan Carlsson
Last updated 2011-11-25
Viking history, e-books and reports
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