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Bedrock in Öland and the nearby mainland Sweden. Data: © SGU. Basemap: Esri, HERE, Garmin, ©OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS user community.
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Sandby borg, an Iron Age ringfort on Öland, Sweden has been and is still at the center of attention in media and archaeological research. The massacre uncovered at the site during recent years opens many doors for analyses on the Migration Period (c. 400-550 AD) Iron Age skeletal remains. Eighteen teeth (molars) from 12 individuals and three rodent...
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... old rocks, for example gneiss and granite. Öland, Gotland, and the southern areas (Denmark etc.) have younger bedrock, which is more calcareous. Öland and the coastal areas next to Öland are dominated by young bedrock units aged 850-34 million years. Other parts of the mainland are dominated by much older bedrock aged 1880-1740 million years ( fig. 5). The northern parts of Öland consist of eroded land with a thin soil layer ( fig. 6). The southern parts are framed with two long ridges, which were shaped by the fluctuations of the Baltic sea. The northern area between the ridges consists of fertile soil. The lower parts, Stora Alvaret, consist of eroded limestone with a thin soil ...
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... between 0.7102 and 0.7158, according to Fornander et al. 2015. To verify the local range three rodent teeth from Sandby borg were analyzed in this study. The rodent teeth from Sandby borg were lower in 87 Sr/ 86 Sr. The fauna sampled in Fornander et al. 2015 are from the west coast on Öland. The bedrock is, on the west coast, slightly older (see fig. 5), which could mean that the rodents from Sandby borg represents the site on a smaller scale in terms of 87 Sr/ 86 ...
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In this chapter, the results concerning the alleged practice of long-term avoidance as well as the site as a form of difficult heritage or not will be presented. In my interviews, I found that the alleged practice of a long-term avoidance is very well-known among the local population. Despite this, it was highly disputed. The results show that the discovery of the massacre in Sandby borg has created new myths as well as new relationships to the past and to the landscape, but these have not been accepted freely as there are areas of contestation. This highlights archaeological fieldwork as a creative, discursive and potentially disruptive practice. Thereafter I present how Sandby borg is temporally positioned and how such a temporal positioning can be challenged to produce different values and engagements.
