01- The Mosfell Archaeological Project
02- Project Goals & Participants
03- The Mosfell Valley
04- Archaeological Field Work Results
05- 1995 Field Season: Mosfell Church
06- 1998 Field Season: Survey
07- 1999 Field Season: Geophysics & Phosphate Survey
08- 2001 Field Season: Hrísbrú Burial Ground
09- 2002 Field Season: Churchyard & Cremation
10- 2003 Field Season: Churchyard & Cremation
11- 2004 Field Season: Hrísbrú Stave Church Uncovered
12- 2005 Field Season: Egil’s Grave? and Ship-settings
13-2006 Field Season: A Viking Longhouse at Hrísbrú
14- 2007 Field Season: Uncovering the Viking Longhouse
15- 2008 Field Season: Hrísbrú Longhouse Revealed
16- 2009 Field Season: Regional Survey in the Mosfell Valley
17- International Collaboration
18- Historical Sources & Archaeology
19- Burial at Hrísbrú & Evidence of Violence
20- Mosfell & the Viking World
21- Future Research & Questions to Explore
Jesse Byock Viking Site
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The Mosfell Archaeological Project is conducted in a collaborative, international way under the direction of Prof. Jesse L. Byock of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

This international group works in close collaboration with members of the local Mosfellsbær community as well as with archaeologists from the Þjóðminjasafn (The Icelandic National Museum) and professors at the University of Iceland, the University of Oslo, and other Icelandic and international researchers.

We have received valuable logistic and financial support from the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture, the U. S. Embassy in Iceland, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the U. S. National Science Foundation, and the Centre for Baltic and Scandinavian Archaeology (ZBSA).

 

Team Members Discuss Mosfell Archaeological Project Findings
Phillip Walker, Per Holck, and Jacqueline Eng examing skeletal material from Hrísbrú.

Mosfell Archaeological Project Excavations
Photographing the church excavations at Hrísbrú.

Mosfell Archaeological Project Excavation Site
Excavating the churchyard at Hrísbrú.

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