Skáholt 2002 - Nabo

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Corridor [30] (Main Corridor; CH) The corridor was perhaps the most impressive space in the farm complex for its depth of walls; considerably deeper than any other of the rooms, it is possibly an old part of the farm retained through several centuries as a key architectural element. At the northern end it survived to a height of c. 0.55m, but at the southern limit of excavation, its walls reached 1.15m; although close to completion, primary floor level was not reached. Our excavations affectively covered its northern half, running north-south for c. 18m and 1.2m wide. Its width seems remarkably narrow, especially with respect to the 1784 plan, but then this plan is rarely accurate on dimensions. Although the depth of survival was good, the walls of the corridor were robbed out in places, particularly the eastern wall. Along the central part of the east side, the upper courses of stones were missing at several points, but the major robbing occurred at the southern end of the eastern side. Initially causing much confusion dur ing excavation, the wall section adjacent to the whey store had been completely robbed of its stones down to a depth of c. 1m. While the northern side of the access from the corridor into the whey store appears fairly clear (although even here, there seems to be two possible phases), the southern side is much more ambiguous because of this robbing episode, and given that the full extent of the whey store has not been excavated yet, this part of the corridor may provide more surprises. The first floor level reached in the corridor was a dark organic layer composed primarily of animal dung [148] with occasional flat flagstones, especially along the eastern side and near the base [158] which may be part of the roof collapse. It suggests that the corridor, in its final stages at least, was used to shelter animals, but the layers below this have not, as yet been excavated. Above this animal floor surface were the primary series of roof/wall collapse deposits ([129], [140], [144], [155]) from the abandonment of the corridor, with occasional peat ash dumps [141] against the western side. Later episodes of turf collapse were represented by [133], [134], [119], [089], [091] and [076], with [119], [091] and [076] containing lenses of peat ash, with another major peat ash dump horizon marked by [079]. This series of collapse and peat-ash dumps suggests the ruin was 27
sporadically used to dump hearth waste as it was collapsing, probably over the course of the 19 th century. Above these 19 th century abandonment deposits were early 20 th century deposits of similar nature, comprising further turf collapse ([072], [051]) over which, at the southern end, were a series of almost pure charcoal dumps with some smithying waste ([038], [042], [045]). Sealing the top of the corridor was the lower part of the 1958 leveling layer ([031]/[022]), which as in room [39], had filled in the top of what had been the hollow of the ruin. Plate III. Corridor under excavation 28
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Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction .
Page 5 and 6: LIST OF PLATES Plate I. View of the
Page 7 and 8: Between 1954 and 1958, the first pr
Page 9 and 10: structures. Thereafter, excavation
Page 11 and 12: The project is a cooperation betwee
Page 13 and 14: 76 m 75 m 74 m 73 m 72 m 71 m 70 m
Page 15 and 16: is also suggested that a topographi
Page 17 and 18: I I I I I I I V c m S k á l h o l
Page 19 and 20: Þrátt fyrir að gjóskulög frá
Page 21 and 22: productivity. Soil accumulation on
Page 23 and 24: EXCAVATION Excavation occurred at t
Page 25 and 26: The buildings basically consisted o
Page 27 and 28: Room [15] (Bishop´s Inner Chambers
Page 29 and 30: Abandonment of the building is mark
Page 31: Room [127] (Unknown Annexe; MS) Unm
Page 35 and 36: Rector´s chambers, and after 1781,
Page 37 and 38: earthquake and re-location of the s
Page 39 and 40: There is little doubt this feature
Page 41 and 42: much earlier. Curiously though, the
Page 43 and 44: Figure 6. Phasing of School Rooms 8
Page 45 and 46: On the southern side of the haybarn
Page 47 and 48: shelters in the 19 th century seems
Page 49 and 50: 3. FINDS The amount of finds recove
Page 51 and 52: CERAMIC Pottery A rapid assessment
Page 53 and 54: glazed earthenwares (faience) were
Page 55 and 56: Bearing in mind that the rooms on t
Page 57 and 58: with incomplete markings: Ger[many]
Page 59 and 60: lown as in the 18 th century exampl
Page 61 and 62: lines. There was also a fine exampl
Page 63 and 64: Other A few rarer metal types were
Page 65 and 66: () which has a flaw running almost
Page 67 and 68: comes fairly close and is a rare si
Page 69 and 70: 4. DISCUSSION THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PO
Page 71 and 72: communities may have introduced new
Page 73 and 74: practices, a general hypothesis tha
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6. REFERENCES Adderley, W.P., Simps
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Horsley, T., (1999). ‘A prelimina
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