The medieval Norse bishop’s seat of Greenland was located at a farm in the Greenlandic Eastern Settlement called Garðar. The site has been the subject of archaeological investigations since the 1830’s. The cathedral has been the primary target of much of the archaeological work and was fully excavated in 1926

This paper reevaluates the current terms and typology used for small functional iron artifacts from medieval northwestern Europe and discusses the advantages of a more uniform terminology for understanding the morphological and functional differences between nails, rivets and clench bolts. Examination of data collected from the National Museum of Iceland

This paper examines the corpus of beads found in Iceland from the medieval and early modern periods, c. 1100–1900. It classifies them according to material and then within that, variously according to established methods where available. The majority of beads occur in either glass, amber, jet or stone, and almost

Iron was needed for tools and weapons, and also as rivets for oceangoing vessels in the North Atlantic waters during the Viking Age – Early Medieval period. By means of select finds the author documents a large and professional production of bloomery iron in Northern and also some in Southern