Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Heldal, Tom"

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    • The Beginning of the Viking Age in the West 

      Baug, Irene; Skre, Dagfinn; Heldal, Tom; Jansen, Øystein James (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-04)
      During the Viking Age, Arctic Scandinavia was a source of exquisite furs, down, walrus ivory, and other commodities that met with high demand in England and on the Continent. Hitherto, the earliest firm evidence of this ...

    • The Building Stones from the Vanished Medieval Church at Onarheim, Tysnes, Hordaland County in Western Norway: Provenancing Chlorite Schist and Soapstone 

      Jansen, Øystein J.; Heldal, Tom (UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)
      This study centres on the provenance of soapstone and chlorite schist building stones at Onarheim church, 50 km south of Bergen and also provides geochemical results that are of key interest in further studies of Norwegian ...

    • From Soapstone Quarries to Churches: Control, Ownership and Transport Along the Helgeland Coast in North Norway 

      Berglund, Birgitta; Heldal, Tom; Grenne, Tor (UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)
      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 ...

    • Reconstructing a Medieval Underground Soapstone Quarry: Bakkaunet in Trondheim in an International Perspective 

      Storemyr, Per; Heldal, Tom (UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)
      Underground medieval quarries are rare, in Norway and elsewhere in Europe. Thus the question: Could a big underground soapstone quarry have been opened at Bakkaunet in Trondheim (central Norway) in the Middle Ages? This ...

    • Soapstone in the North. Quarries, Products and People 7000 BC - AD 1700 

      Hansen, Gitte; Storemyr, Per; Stavsøien, Eva; Wickler, Stephen; Lindahl, Ingvar; Nilsson, Lars Petter; Bunse, Laura; Bergsvik, Knut Andreas; Grenne, Tor; Østerås, Bodil; Stenvik, Lars F.; Heldal, Tom; Schou, Torbjørn Preus; Baug, Irene; Vangstad, Hilde; Høegsberg, Mogens Skaaning; Forster, Amanda; Jones, Richard; Jansen, Øystein J.; Berglund, Birgitta; Hommedal, Alf Tore (UBAS, University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Book; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This book addresses soapstone use in Norway and the North Atlantic region, including Greenland. Although the majority of the papers deal with the Iron Age and Middle Ages, the book spans the Mesolithic to the early modern ...

    • Soapstone Vessels from Town and Country in Viking Age and Early Medieval Western Norway. A Study of Provenance 

      Hansen, Gitte; Jansen, Øystein J.; Heldal, Tom (UBAS - University of Bergen Archaeological Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)
      In this study geological and archaeological data and analytic methods are combined and explored to find the geological source for 146 late Iron Age/Viking Age and early medieval soapstone vessels from the Hordaland region ...