Hjaltadalur Archaeological Settlement Project (HASP) coring and farmstead datasets 2021-2023; Hjaltadalur, Iceland.

This is a dataset of cores and farmstead sizes at different times, taken as part of an archaeological settlement survey in Hjaltadalur and Viðvíkursveit in Skagafjörður, Northwest Iceland. This work is part of the larger Hjaltadalur Archaeological Settlement Project (HASP). Farmsteads were investigated archaeologically with a program of cores. The results of the coring were used to estimate their size at various times by using ubiquitous tephra layers. The two tephra layers used to measure site size were H1 (After Death [AD] 1104), and Hekla 1300. The Hjaltadalur Archaeological Settlement Project is a joint archaeological project of Hólar University and the Fiske Center at UMass Boston. The archaeological work seeks to determine if the settlement pattern of the 9th-century colonization of Iceland affected the development of the religious and economic institutions that dominated the 14th century. Blank cells or cells with N/A indicate that the researcher did not fill in the data or that there was an instrument failure and only partial data was retained. The csv files use UTF-8 encoding.