[Northkeep] [Fwd: FW: Viking News]
Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner
BurgBorrendohl at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 5 06:56:46 PDT 2006
This message came from a gentleman from whom we have purchased books in
the past. I thought I'd post it just in case anyone has the time or
inclination to join or follow the work being done.
Ismet
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Carlsson [mailto:info at arkeodok.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:00 AM
> To: VikingHistory at arkeodok.com
> Subject: Viking News
>
> Dear Viking friends,
> Summer time again, at least in the northern hemisphere. Time
> for excavations of Viking sites in other words. Our long
> excavation time of the Viking harbour at Frojel, Gotland,
> finished last year, to give way to analyses and time to
> publish the results. But there will be minor excavations this
> summer at Spillings, where the worlds biggest silver hoard
> was found in 1999. And there will also be two weeks
> excavation at Västergarn churchyard to try to find the Viking
> heritage at the site.
>
> I will keep you updated about the results of these
> excavations. In the meantime, I would like to inform you
> about a new excavation project starting next summer (2007)
> here on Gotland (Viking Discovery Programme). These
> excavations will be devoted to get a better understanding of
> the Viking Age farm an its setting, something that is not
> very well known. These excavations will take place as
> international excavation courses open to participation from
> archaeologists as well as amateurs. You will find more
> informaiton about these, as I see it, fascinating excavations
> starting 2007 at: http://www.arkeodok.com/index1.html.
>
> I am taking a year off from my work at Gotland University,
> starting 1 of July this year, to get more time to publish and
> to spread information about Vikings. Sorry to say, having a
> full time teachers job at a university doesn't work with the
> idea of making for instance new CD-R about Viking history.
> So, time has come to concentrate on the matter of spreading
> information about Vikings. And as a step in that direction, I
> hope to be able to publish a new CD-R about bone and antler
> work in Viking Age in a month. I need to take some more
> photos of needle cases, befoe I can compile the results.
>
> But as said, interested to join our excavation programme,
> please let me know, and I would appreciate if you spread the
> word around about this opportunity.
>
> Best regards
> Associate Professor
> Dan Carlsson
>
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