GIS-material for the archaeological project: Högby 87:1 - A burial ground from the Early Iron Age

The information in the abstract is translated from the archeological report:
Kulturmiljövård Mälardalen (KM) was commissioned by the County administrative board of Östergötland to conduct a supplementary field evaluation of the ancient monument Högby 87:1, a burial ground from the Early Iron Age. The monument is located within the property Högby 5:12, in Högby parish, Mjölby municipality. The evaluation was prompted by the planned widening of road 32 between Mjölby and Skänninge. The western part of the burial ground was investigated in 1992 when road 32 was built. Prior to the current reconstruction of the road, there was a goal to leave the remaining eastern part of burial ground intact and that a protected zone was to be established around the remains during the construction work. In a field assessment that KM performed during the summer of 2009, it turned out, however, that the burial ground had a significantly greater extent than previously known. In the trenches around the burial ground's protection zone there were found parts of stone settings in six of the trenches. A supplementary field evaluation was thus made to assess the burial ground's extent. During the current field evaluation graves have been identified within a 70x15-30 m large area.

Purpose:

The information in the purpose is translated from the archaeological report:
In accordance with the County Administrative Board's inquiry form, the aim of the field evaluation was to define and describe the character, date, extent, scope, composition and complexity of the prehistoric remains. Given the fact that a large part of the burial ground already had been surveyed, KM considered that a basis already existed to assess the burial ground's character and dating. The additional investigation was therefore aimed at delimitation of the burial ground, and to assess its extent and composition.

The ZIP file consist of GIS files and an Access database with information about the excavations, findings and other metadata about the archaeological survey. Show less..