Skagafjörður Church and Settlement Survey (SCASS) coring and farmstead datasets 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/A2WM13V65

This is a dataset of cores and farmstead sizes at different times, 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 coring were used to estimate their size at various times by using the ubiquitous tephra layers. The two tephra layers used to measure site size were H1 (AD 1104), and 1300. 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. Blank cells or cells with N/A indicate that the researcher did not fill in the data or that there was an instrument failure and only partial data was retained. The csv files use UTF-8 encoding.