Skáholt 2002 - Nabo

earthquake and re-location of the school to Reykjavík. The final abandonment of the
room is marked by further turf and stone wall/roof collapse [037] with some midden
dumping into the room [029], which probably occurs no later than the early 19 th century
on the basis of associated finds.
Plate IV School Room and Dormitory
Room [81] (School room; RT)
At the eastern edge of the excavation area, just falling within its limits was the school
room, aligned north-east/south-west and at a right-angle to the dormitory with which it
shared a doorway and on the threshold of which was a large flat floor slab. The room was
9.4m long and 2.88m wide, noticeably sloping down from the north by 0.25m, with stone
blocks serving as pad stones placed regularly (c. 1.4m between each, at the centre point)
along the sides of the walls. Its walls survived to a height of 0.55m in the north but only
0.15m at the south, although the northern and southern walls were slightly different in
construction. This is most clear at the northern end, where the wall is clearly a later
addition (the southern end is more truncated and harder to interpret), and inserted in
between the two north-south walls which continue beyond the limit of excavation.
Possible upper parts of this wall were excavated ([064], [097]) , though these could also
be remnants of a later structure, mostly truncated (see discussion above). This gable wall
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