dc.contributor.author | Stenvik, Lars Fredrik | |
dc.contributor.author | Grenne, Tor | |
dc.contributor.author | Østerås, Bodil | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-24T06:49:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-24T06:49:17Z | |
dc.date.created | 2017-09-05T09:45:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-82-90273-90-8 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2495536 | |
dc.description.abstract | The oldest known example of large-scale soapstone exploitation in Norway is found at Kvikne (south central Norway), where quarrying took place during the pre-Roman Iron Age (5th to 1st century BC). The quarry is located in a remote area at an altitude of nearly 1000 m ASL, and is untouched by Viking Age and medieval exploitation that was so extensive elsewhere in Norway. Excavations in the 1960s suggested a production of several thousand circular vessels. Later studies revealed a separate, large extraction area for angular and irregular blanks that were distinctly different but carved with similar adze-like tools. We speculate that the latter blanks were meant for forge-stones connected to the contemporary, large-scale exploitation and processing of bog iron. Radiocarbon dating results suggest that the circular and angular extractions represent early and late pre-Roman Iron Age phases of quarrying, respectively. The tool marks suggest that iron axes were used for soapstone extraction already from the earliest pre-Roman Iron Age. This nearly 500-year period of quarrying with a bladed tool technique is in marked contrast to the use of pointed tools in the Viking Age and later, in accordance with previous suggestions of a total break in soapstone vessel production during the Roman Iron Age and Migration Period. Similar production must have existed elsewhere in Norway in the pre-Roman Iron Age, but traces of the ancient quarrying were in most cases erased by the very extensive exploitation of soapstone in the Viking Age and later. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | UBAS Universitetet i Bergen | nb_NO |
dc.relation.ispartof | Soapstone in the North. Quarries, Products and People. 7000 BC - AD 1700 | |
dc.rights | Navngivelse-Ikkekommersiell-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | The Sandbakken Qarry, Kvikne: A Window into Early Iron Age Soapstone Exploitation in Norway | nb_NO |
dc.type | Chapter | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Nordisk arkeologi: 091 | nb_NO |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Nordic archaeology: 091 | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 93-106 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1490971 | |
dc.description.localcode | © 2017 The Authors. Under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. | nb_NO |
cristin.unitcode | 194,31,5,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Institutt for arkeologi og kulturhistorie | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | postprint | |