TY - JOUR AU - Elvestad, Endre AU - Opedal, Arnfrid PY - 2020/01/06 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Maritime-archaeological investigations of the Hanseatic harbour at Avaldsnes JF - AmS-Skrifter JA - AmS-Skrifter VL - IS - 27 SE - Part IV: Case studies DO - 10.31265/ams-skrifter.v0i27.275 UR - https://journals.uis.no/index.php/AmS-Skrifter/article/view/275 SP - 217-236 AB - <p>Investigations of the medieval harbour at the important royal manor of Avaldsnes, south-west Norway, revealed extensive&nbsp;underwater cultural layers and structures like ballast heaps and jetty foundations from the thirteenth until the early sixteenth&nbsp;century. The finds cover a large area and the conditions for preservation of the archaeological material is excellent.&nbsp;A waiting harbour at this strategic site along the fairway to Bergen probably got new functions and became the arena for&nbsp;intense activity during a 100-year period c. 1350–1450. The site known from written sources as Notau was most likely part&nbsp;of the same economic network as Bergen with ties to Hanseatic cities like Lübeck and Danzig. The pottery found on the sea&nbsp;bottom reveals an even wider range of international connections. The results have implications for the relationship between&nbsp;the Norwegian king and the Hanse and the Hanse’s activity outside of the medieval towns. The site is largely undisturbed by&nbsp;modern development and thus very well suited for future research.</p> ER -