The Follo Railroad Environmental Monitoring Project in Medieval Oslo, Norway
Author(s): Vibeke Vandrup Martens; Michel Vorenhout
Year: 2018
Summary
In conjunction with a large urban infrastructure project, renewing the Norwegian railroad through the listed monument of the Medieval town of Oslo, an environmental monitoring programme was established. The Medieval town consists of extensive archaeological remains preserved in situ. The monitoring programme focusses on the following questions: What is the influence of building an encased railroad next to a medieval monument? How are the unsaturated conditions influenced next to the new railroad? And how does such a large urban infrastructure project affect the preservation conditions of the archaeological deposits in the unsaturated zone further inside the monument? This paper presents the archaeological setting, the installed equipment and monitoring plan as well as the first results of the long-term monitoring that started in 2016.
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The Follo Railroad Environmental Monitoring Project in Medieval Oslo, Norway. Vibeke Vandrup Martens, Michel Vorenhout. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443821)
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Geographic Keywords
Europe: Northern Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -26.016; min lat: 53.54 ; max long: 31.816; max lat: 80.817 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 21969