12. Grave Monuments at Avaldsnes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of content IX
4. Abbreviations XIII
5. Section A. Scholarly Background
6. 1. Rethinking Avaldsnes and Kormt 3
7. 2. Exploring Avaldsnes 1540–2005 11
8. 3. Avaldsnes and Kormt in Old Norse Written Sources 35
9. 4. The Avaldsnes Royal Manor Project’s Research Plan and Excavation Objectives 53
10. Section B. Excavation Results 2011–12
11. 5 Excavations and Surveys 1985-2012 65
12. 6. Site Periods and Key Contexts 83
13. 7. The Prehistoric Settlement and Buildings 103
14. 8 Prehistoric Agriculture 137
15. 9. The Production Area 157
16. 10. Two Iron Age Boathouses 183
17. 11. A Late Iron Age Palisade Facing the Karmsund Strait 209
18. 12. Grave Monuments at Avaldsnes 227
19. 13. Political and Ritual Aspects of Cooking Pits 253
20. 14. The High Medieval Royal Manor 277
21. 15. The Post-Medieval Rectory 309
22. Section C Scientific Analyses 2011–12
23. 16. Geophysical Surveys 327
24. 17. Microstratigraphy (Soil Micromorphology and Microchemistry, Soil Chemistry, and Magnetic Susceptibility) 379
25. 18. Geochemical analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence 421
26. 19 Biological Remains 455
27. Section D Specialist Studies
28. 20. Artefacts from the 2011–12 Excavations 513
29. 21. Migration Period Pottery from Avaldsnes: A Study of Shards from Bucket-shaped Pots 527
30. 22. The Flaghaug Burials 551
31. 23. The Raised Stones 639
32. 24. Avaldsnes, Kormt and Rogaland. A Toponymy and Landscape Survey 665
33. 25. Depositional Traditions in Iron Age Kormt 687
34. 26. Emerging Kingship in the 8th Century? New Datings of three Courtyard Sites in Rogaland 721
35. Section E Avaldsnes: a Sea-Kings’ Manor
36. 27. Aristocratic Presence along the Karmsund Strait 2000 BC–AD 1368 749
37. 28. The Warrior Manor 765
38. 29. Sea Kings on the Norðvegr 781
39. References Appendices
40. References 803
41. Appendix I: The ARM Project Council, Advisory Group, Staff, and Authors 861
42. Appendix II: Radiocarbon dates 865