Oddstaðir
Part of: Iceland
Beyond providing a long term chronology on site management and farm economy, this site has produced faunal remains dating from the 13th to the late 14th c., contemporaneous with those found at the Gásir trading site and also those from the medieval monastic estate at Möðruvellir. The Oddstaðir ruins are found on land that has for several centuries belonged to the Öxnhóll farm. Öxnhóll owned a parish church until the 16th c. After an extensive coring survey for potential medieval midden deposits turned out successful in the summer of 2009, a test trench was placed into the most promising midden area, providing the excavation team with a sizeable sample of environmental and some material remains.
Geographic Keywords
Republic of Iceland (Country) •
Nordhurland Eystra (State / Territory) •
IS (ISO Country Code) •
Europe (Continent)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-2 of 2)
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Oddstair_faunal_database (2012)
DATASET
Access database of faunal remains analyzed from the 2009 excavation.
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Oddstaðir in Hörgárdalur, N. Iceland: Report of the 2009 Archaeofauna. (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text
This report presents preliminary zooarchaeological results from the Viking Age and medieval midden deposits at the Oddstaðir farm ruins. Beyond providing a long term chronology on site management and farm economy, this site has produced faunal remains dating from the 13th to the late 14th c., contemporaneous with those found at the Gásir trading site and also those from the medieval monastic estate at Möðruvellir. Results from the Oddstaðir faunal analysis are highly valuable and suggest that...