Small Scale Ironmaking in Viking Age Skagafjörður, North Iceland

• Main Author: Zeitlin, Nicholas
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks at UMass Boston 2020
• Subjects: Historical Archaeology; Icelandic Archaeology; Iron Smelting; Settlement Survey; Archaeological Anthropology; Medieval History; Scandinavian Studies; Hegranes; Skagafjörður; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umb.edu/masters_theses/660; https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1661&context=masters_theses

Iron played a key role in the Viking Age settlement of Iceland and the subsequent medieval economy on the island. Iron smelting was a time-consuming process, but the product was valuable and necessary for the maintenance of a farmstead. This thesis examines the scale of production at a single iron p...