Stones laid in orderly rows or as packed surfaces constitute concrete and highly residual traces on the hill. However, when it comes to interpreting the remains of houses, it is what is not visible or preserved that must be taken into account in the interpretation.
The walls themselves have disappeared but finds of mud bricks at least suggest that there were walls at some point. A roof or other superstructure would have had some kind of support. The outline of a 10x5 meter house has been identified on the 2012 georadar images. These showed concentrations of stone in places within the proposed building.
During the 2021 fieldwork, the ground was excavated immediately adjacent to such a concentration, which eventually turned out to be a up to one meter across. The deep pit was filled with larger stones and gave the impression that it had been moved when necessary during the period of use. Here there was not even the negative impression of a wooden roof-supporting post, but a situation which could still be interpreted as the previous existence of one or more such posts.
Even more abstract traces of what happened on the hill are hidden in the soil layers themselves. Plant parts, pollen, charcoal and soil chemical traces can also contribute to the interpretation of the site's archaeology. Ongoing sampling for future analysis is therefore of great importance to the project, as complex stratigraphic and contextual issues must be weighed against a more or less comprehensible, and to varying degrees fragmentary, find material.
Identifier Vångakullen_archaeology_p3 Date Created 2023-07-13 License CC-BY 4.0 Rights Holder Lund University (Sweden) Has representation https://dev.omeka.ht.lu.se/s/vastra-vang/item/1848 VV2021 Trench A on November 9 (3D model) AdditionalProperty https://dev.omeka.ht.lu.se/s/vastra-vang/item/4119 Vångakullen scene 3.1 https://dev.omeka.ht.lu.se/s/vastra-vang/item/4120 Vångakullen scene 3.2 --