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Vestvågøy - 42 Bøstad House Sites and Pollen Analysis Site/Artefact Bøstad farm number 92 Type House sites and pollen analysis Site Number Nr. 18 NGO Grid Reference 22500,1 1142649,3 Map ( 1:50000) ØK reference:? Excavated House site 1: R3 3155H12 House site 2: R1 3155 H10 List of Sites and Artefacts Click Here Interactive Map Click Here Description Registrations in 1970 supply us with the following information: House site 17x10 m, situated close Borge River at farm nr. 92/1 about 200 m west of the houses at farm nr. 92/2, 14. reference: R3 3155 H12. Small scale excavation is done at this site. House site 16x7, situated at farm nr. 92/3, 14, 200 m W of house site R1 3155 H12 and 400 m W of the farm houses. ?Kreference: R1 3155H10. 150 m north north east of the house sites, a burial mound is situated, 4-5 m in dm, 60 m east of the house site, stones build up a spring: 1,1 x 0,9 m (inner measures)   Excavation Details Excavation of house site R3 3155 H12 was carried out by Olav S. Johansen in 1973. The structures indicates a date to the Merovingian Period or Viking Age, but dating from earlier cultural layers and hearth covers the period between BC 200 - AD 1000. Finds from the excavationsmall iron sickle, different shreds of clay and a bead of rock crystal (museum number TS7734). Pollen analysis from 1976 indicates cultivation of barley back to BC 2000. The farm has probably been deserted after the Black Death in the middle of the 12th century. Access/Ownership Private property References Olav Sverre Johansen 1979: De nordnorske tunanleggene fra jernalderen, i Viking National Registrations: Topographical archive, Museum of Tromsø Other Vestvågøy Sites and Artefacts 1. Borg 2. Buksnesfjorden 3. Bøstad 4. Eggum 5. Einangen 6. Eltoft 7. Holsneset 8. Holsøya 9. Kvalnes 10. Moland 11. Nykmark 12. Skjerpen 13. Trollsteinen 14. Uttakleiv 15. Vendalsjord 16. The Stone Crosses 17. Malnes 18. Borg Burial Mounds 19. Borg Burial Mounds 20. Borg Roman House Site 21. Borg House Remains I:Ia 23. Borg I:Ib 24. Borg House Remains 25. Borg - Midden 26. Borg House Site 27. Borg House Sites 28. Borg Farm Ruins 29. Borg Medieval Sites 30. Borg Burial Mounds 31. Borg Possible Settlement 32. Borg Medieval House Site 33. Borg Boat Houses 34. Burial Mound 35. Burial Mound 36. Borg Burial Mound 37. Borg Modern Church 38. Bøstad Burial Cairn 39. Bøstad Removed Burials 40. Bøstad - Courtyard 41. Boat House and Burial 42. Bøstad House Sites 43. Bøstad Farm Mound 44. Rystad Boat Houses 45. Rystad Burial Mound 46. Burial and Farm Mound 47. Rystad Burial Mound 48. Rystad - Burials 49. Rystad Burial Cairn 50. Handberg Charcoal-Pits 51. Handberg Farm Mound 52. Handberg Charcoal Pit - 1 53. Handberg Charcoal Pit -2 54. Handberg Charcoal Pit - 3 55. Handberg Charcoal Pit - 4 56. Handberg Charcoal Pits 57. Handberg Charcoal Pit 58. Vendalsjord 59. Lie Burial Mound 60. Lie Boat House 61. Lie 62. Løvdal 63. Borgfjord Indre 64. Sletteng 65. Borgfjord Ytre 66. Ytre Borgfjord - Burial 67. Borgfjord Ytre 68. Ytre Borgfjord 69. Borgfjord Ytre 70. Hagvåg Boat House 71. Hagvåg Burial Mound 72. Hagvåg Bridge Construction 73. Evjen Farm Mound

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