The Alvastra project is currently in its final stages of registration work and we are all working intensely with the registration of these last finds. Greg and I are currently working with the flint finds from the Middle trench where some very nice...
I am happy to announce that my very first task in the Alvastra project is finished! The flint from the Western trench has now been registered and digitalised on the Swedish History Museum’s platform Sök i samlingarna. The total number of flint finds...
Working with archaeological material is interesting and exciting, however the thrill and awe over how old the objects are have somewhat lessened through the years. Nonetheless, every now and then I get those thrills and they fill me with humility...
In April, I had the opportunity to be able to spend a week in Virginia, USA at the home of Dr. Errett Callahan, a master flint knapper, archaeologist and pioneer of experimental archaeology. Errett has long been one of the people I have looked up to...
There are literally thousands of pieces of flint in the material collected in the 1976-1980 investigations. These range in size from whole cores or pieces of cores and raw material to the smallest micro flakes, and debitage less than 1mm across. So...