Chapels, Church sites and Settlement in Medieval Faroe Islands
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2017-02-07

In the Faroes a group of sites has, because of their characteristics and associated placenames, been interpreted as medieval chapels - maybe even remains representing the early Christianisation process. But because of the lack of church archaeological investigations our knowledge of the Faroese Medieval church is quite limited. The paper will discuss the characterisation of the archaeological material at hand based on an ongoing project involving surveys and investigations of possible church ruins. In an attempt to understand these relics - their relation and function within the Medieval church in the Faroes - they will be placed in a settlement-historical as well as in a North Atlantic context.

Author - Arge, Simun Vilhelm, Faroese National Heritage, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (Presenting author)