Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS) coring images 2015-2018.

• Main Author: John Steinberg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2020
• Subjects: Archaeology; Viking Age; Survey; Hegranes; Skagafjörður; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2B27PS06

This is a dataset of photographs of cores taken as part of an archaeological settlement survey on Hegranes, in Skagafjörður, Northwest Iceland. This work is part of the larger Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS). Farmsteads were investigated archaeologically with a program of cores. The results of the hand coring were used to estimate their size at various times by using the ubiquitous tephra layers. These photographs are of significant portions of the hand cores, usually with tephra and cultural material combined. The metrics of these core photographs can be found in the "Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS) coring and farmstead datasets 2015-2018." The photograph is usually one of the 40 cm JMC Backsaver retrievals. The name of the image is the Core ID plus 1, 2, or 3 indicating core depth. Core ID plus _1 indicates 0-40 cm bags; Core ID plus _2 indicates 40-80 cm bags, and Core ID plus _3 indicates 80-120 cm bags. Core ID's are used in the SCASS_core_locations.csv, the SCASS_core_layers.csv, and the SCASS_core_tephra.csv databases. The Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS) is a joint archaeological project of the Skagafjörður Heritage Museum and the Fiske Center at UMass Boston. The archaeological work seeks to determine if the settlement pattern of the 9th-century colonization of Iceland affected the development of the religious and economic institutions that dominated the 14th century. This data package contains pictures of significant cores recorded during the research