The potential of shoreline and shallow submerged Iron Age and Medieval archaeological sites in the Lofoten Islands, northern Norway

• Main Author: Wickler, Stephen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Archaeopress 2013
• Subjects: VDP::Humanities: 000::Archeology: 090::Nordic archeology: 091; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Arkeologi: 090::Nordisk arkeologi: 091; Norwegian Sea; Lofoten; Norway; Vesterålen; North Atlantic; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/6088

The Lofoten-Vesterålen archipelago (67°30’ - 69°30’N) is a chain of mountainous islands dissected by cirques, glacial valleys, and fjords that extends from northeast to southwest into the Norwegian Sea (Figure 1). Vesterålen is the northerly chain of islands and the seven islands of Lofoten lie to t...