As had been said before, we made some trial excavation between 1987 and 1990. The results from these excavations will be published in a book, which I hope will be ready in the end of the year 1998. To give a short introduction of the reader to these investigations, I will give an account of examples of results from the harbor. This time, I have chosen to give a brief outline of one of the about 20 graves we investigated during these years. It concerns a female grave. The grave contained, besides the female, also an infant. Ph.D. Berit Sigvallius has carried out the osteological investigatio.

Grave 3/88 Inhumation grave, containing a female and an infant. The grave was about 1.80 m long, dug down into the beach gravel and covered by a well-laid stone packing, north south oriented. The deceased lay on her back, with her head to the south and the feet to the north. The head was turned to the right. On the chest of the woman, a child was found. The woman was traditional equipped with jewelery. She had a round brooch and two animal head brooches, a bronze pin, 5 beads, one corroded key of iron, an iron needle, a rivet (probably belongs to the cultural layer from the settlement), and a couple of unidentified artifacts of iron. The round brooch was very worn. It should probably be dated to "Fason D", which means the 9th century, according to Lena Thunmark-Nylén. The two animal headed brooches are of a type that dates it to the 10th century, according to Anders Carlsson 1983. Osteological determination: The grave contained two individual, one adult and one child. The adult individual was a woman, about 159 cm tall and around 44 years old. The skeleton was rather complete, but very fragmented.

Injuries: No sign of any injuries, neither on the back, or any other joints.

The skeleton of the child, situated on top of the woman, was from a newborn child, 0-6 months old. The determination of age comes from the teeth and the development of the vertebrae.

Find
F1. Pin of bronze with profiled and decorated head.
F2. Animal head brooch. A part of the needle made of iron is preserved.
F3. As above. Identical as F3.
F4. Round brooch. In poor condition.
F5. Beads; all in all 5. Two of them were made of amber, three made of milk glass from which one was white and the other red and finaly one brown double bead.
F6. Fragments of a small bronze chain.
F7. Knife(?)made of iron. Very corroded.
F8. A large amount of iron fragments from unidentified objects.
F9. Iron rod.

Literature:

Carlsson, A. 1983. Djurhuvudformiga spännen och gotländsk vikingatid. Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 5. Stockholm.

Carlsson, A. 1988. Vikingatida ringspännen från Gotland. Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 8. Stockholm.

Thunmark, L. 1983. Vikingatida dosspännen - teknisk stratigrafi och verkstadsgruppering. AUN 4. Uppsala.