Vardø Potsherd Collection : Photographic documentation and type determination of medieval and early modern potsherds from Vardø, northern Norway

• Main Author: Lahti, Martine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: DataverseNO 2022
• Subjects: FOS History and archaeology; Arctic; Norway; Tromsø; Vardø; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18710/yrdr-5d21; https://dataverse.no/dataverse/vardoepotsherds/

This collection contains images taken in Spring 2021 of pottery sherds from the archaeological collection of The Arctic University Museum of Norway, Tromsø. The sherds object ID are: Ts5629 q-ee, Ts5630 d-l, Ts5631 d-l, Ts5632 c-f, Ts5633 b-f, Ts5634 b-l, Ts5636 a-kp, Ts5637 g-nn, Ts5638 a-ææ, Ts5639 a-å, Ts5640 a-åå, and Ts9583 b. This work was done in connection to my master thesis in archaeology, about Vardø in the middle ages. For this to be done I did a type determination by performing a macroscopic analysis. The main focus in my master was to study pottery from the middle ages to answer my thesis question about Vardø's role during this time. With input and help from Volker Demuth, Reidar Bertelsen, and Natascha Mehler.