From Soapstone Quarries to Churches: Control, Ownership and Transport Along the Helgeland Coast in North Norway
Several soapstone quarries are found along the coast of Helgeland in north Norway, including some on islands in the mouth of Vefsnfjorden, where there are significant ancient workings. Several medieval stone churches in the area are built of soapstone. Soapstone vessels are found in grave mounds fro...
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ftunivbergen:oai:bora.uib.no:1956/16586 2023-05-15T16:34:07+02:00 From Soapstone Quarries to Churches: Control, Ownership and Transport Along the Helgeland Coast in North Norway Berglund, Birgitta Heldal, Tom Grenne, Tor Hansen, Gitte Storemyr, Per 2017-08 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1956/16586 eng eng University of Bergen UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series urn:isbn:978-82-90273-90-8 urn:issn:0809-6058 https://hdl.handle.net/1956/16586 Attribution CC BY-NC-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Copyright the authors 9 329-356 VDP::Humaniora: 000 VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400 Chapter Peer reviewed 2017 ftunivbergen 2023-03-14T17:43:46Z Several soapstone quarries are found along the coast of Helgeland in north Norway, including some on islands in the mouth of Vefsnfjorden, where there are significant ancient workings. Several medieval stone churches in the area are built of soapstone. Soapstone vessels are found in grave mounds from the Viking Age. In farm mounds, everyday utensils and rough-outs made from soapstone are commonly found. The most important quarries are briefly presented here, along with the soapstone churches. Provenance studies are used to determine from which quarries the soapstone used in the churches came. The results indicate that such studies may tell us much about the ownership and control of the quarries, the distribution of soapstone for building purposes, the builders of the churches and aspects related to the production and quarrying of soapstone used for building purposes. Norges forskningsråd 210449 Universitetsmuseet i Bergen Tromsø museum - Universitetsmuseet NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet publishedVersion Book Part Helgeland North Norway Tromsø University of Bergen: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA-UiB) Bergen Helgeland Norway Tromsø Vefsnfjorden ENVELOPE(12.611,12.611,65.905,65.905) |
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Several soapstone quarries are found along the coast of Helgeland in north Norway, including some on islands in the mouth of Vefsnfjorden, where there are significant ancient workings. Several medieval stone churches in the area are built of soapstone. Soapstone vessels are found in grave mounds from the Viking Age. In farm mounds, everyday utensils and rough-outs made from soapstone are commonly found. The most important quarries are briefly presented here, along with the soapstone churches. Provenance studies are used to determine from which quarries the soapstone used in the churches came. The results indicate that such studies may tell us much about the ownership and control of the quarries, the distribution of soapstone for building purposes, the builders of the churches and aspects related to the production and quarrying of soapstone used for building purposes. Norges forskningsråd 210449 Universitetsmuseet i Bergen Tromsø museum - Universitetsmuseet NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet publishedVersion |
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From Soapstone Quarries to Churches: Control, Ownership and Transport Along the Helgeland Coast in North Norway |
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From Soapstone Quarries to Churches: Control, Ownership and Transport Along the Helgeland Coast in North Norway |
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From Soapstone Quarries to Churches: Control, Ownership and Transport Along the Helgeland Coast in North Norway |
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From Soapstone Quarries to Churches: Control, Ownership and Transport Along the Helgeland Coast in North Norway |
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From Soapstone Quarries to Churches: Control, Ownership and Transport Along the Helgeland Coast in North Norway |
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from soapstone quarries to churches: control, ownership and transport along the helgeland coast in north norway |
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University of Bergen |
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2017 |
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ENVELOPE(12.611,12.611,65.905,65.905) |
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