Excavated Agrarian Building Sites in South-Eastern Norway, c. 2350 BC–AD 1536 (Investigations 1917–2023)

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The dataset provides an overview of sites in south-eastern Norway where identifiable remains of buildings associated with agrarian settlements, dated to c. 2350 BC–AD 1536, have been excavated. The sites were investigated between 1917 and 2023. The dataset has been compiled in connection with the preparation for the publication “Hus og gård gjennom fire tusen år: Faglig program for undersøkelser av bosetnings- og landbruksspor fra senneolitikum til middelalder ved Kulturhistorisk museum”, Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2026.

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Sites with house remains identified in archaeological excavations conducted between 1917 and 2023. The dataset contains information about site location, including farm name; farm number; municipality; county; region; site ID (Askeladden); coordinates (EUREF89-32); permanent link to the excavation report; first year of excavation of the house remains; number of houses; and represented date ranges.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.18710/BB725X
Metadata Access https://dataverse.no/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.18710/BB725X
Provenance
Creator Mjærum, Axel ORCID logo; Martens, Jes ORCID logo; Iversen, Frode ORCID logo; Eriksen, Marianne Hem ORCID logo; Gjerpe, Lars Erik ORCID logo; Glørstad, Zanette Tsigaridas ORCID logo; Kile-Vesik, Jakob J. E.; Loftsgarden, Kjetil ORCID logo; Rødsrud, Christian Løchsen ORCID logo; Samdal, Magne; Simonsen, Margrete Figenschou ORCID logo; Solheim, Steinar ORCID logo; Wenn, Camilla Cecilie (ORCID: 0000-0002-7316-882X); Ødegaard, Marie ORCID logo; Østmo, Mari Arentz ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNO
Contributor Mjærum, Axel; University of Oslo; Museum of Cultural History, UiO; Axel Mjærum; Jes Martens; Frode Iversen
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Museum of Cultural History, UiO
Rights CC0 1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Contact Mjærum, Axel (University of Oslo)
Representation
Resource Type Archaeological excavation data; Dataset
Format text/plain; text/comma-separated-values
Size 5162; 32601
Version 1.2
Discipline Ancient Cultures; Archaeology; Humanities
Spatial Coverage (6.376W, 57.958S, 12.871E, 62.697N); South-eastern Norway