Jordbruksbosetninger i dalbunnen - Fellestrekk (original) (raw)

2016, Gård og utmark i Gudbrandsdalen - Arkeologiske undersøkelser i Fron 2011-2012

During the E6 project Gudbrandsdalen, nine agricultural sites and three Iron Age farmsteads were excavated in Fron. The sites were located in the lower part of the valley, in an area prone to flooding from the river Lågen and landslides from the hillside. The archaeological finds were found in different stratigraphical layers, isolated from each other by sedimentary deposits. The oldest remains consisted of cultivation layers from the Bronze Age that had been sealed off by several floods in the pre-Roman Iron Age. In the Roman Iron Age and migration period, there is evidence of a long period of stability, with several new sites including the three farmsteads followed by a general decline in the Merovingian period. The farmsteads were abandoned, and the cultivation layers show evidence of flooding. The sites are never fully recovered, though there is some evidence of sporadic activity in the following periods – mainly in the Middle Ages