Kämpinge

About the project

Archaeological investigations are by their nature destructive activities. Data documentation is the most important task not to lose the information collected, the interpretations performed and the new knowledge obtained. The Archaeological Interactive Report -AIR is a web platform that provides archaeologists with the tools for documentation, long-term archival, management, visualization, and publication of archaeological investigation data.

Between 2014 and 2017, the Department of Archeology and Ancient History, Lund University conducted archaeological excavations at Norrjevägen, Kämpinge 24:2 in Räng sn, RAÄ 4: 1, Skåne. The property of Kämpinge 24:2 where the excavations took place lies within the borders of the site RAÄ 4:1 in Räng sn, which extends 740 m x 40-390 m in the NNV-SSÖ direction. The excavations were conducted with students participating in the courses "Archaeology in practice" and "Digital archaeology II" at Lund University. Large amounts of objects in flint and rock have been collected on the fields northeast of Norrjevägen in Kämpinge (see Leffler 2010 and 2012). Previous studies of stray finds from RAÄ 4:1 Indicate that the site was used intensively during the Atlantic period and that the findings should be assigned to the Ertebölle culture. A summed probability model of the available radiocarbon dates from Atlantic Ertebölle sites in Southern Sweden suggests that they should be dated to approximately 8000-6000 cal BP.

In total, the fieldwork in Kämpinge included four campaigns (2014-2017), each consisting of four weeks of excavations followed by two weeks of post-excavation work when provisional field reports were produced by the students. The registration of a large collection of stray finds originating from the sites, which for a number of years has been collected by amateur archaeologists Paul Matsson and Leif Brost, was also registered within the project in collaboration with Länsstyrelsen in Scania (the responsible authority)