Ongoing Studies into the Borgund Finds: The Wooden Material

The Borgund Kaupang Project is nearing the mid-point of its original project period and we are checking in with our collaborators during a three-day conference later this week.

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Woman studies archaeological findings through a microscope
Lísabet Guðmundsdóttir studies wooden artefacts from Borgund. Photo: Gitte Hansen, UiB

Some researchers are already in Bergen, in order to use the chance to work with material from Borgund while in town. Lísabet Guðmundsdóttir has arrived from Iceland to study wood utilisation practices in Borgund (as well as in the wider North Atlantic world). She is recording wooden objects from the excavations and analysing wood species through optical microscopy.

Lísabet explains her process to Gitte in this short video: