Karst cave.
| Location: | Reykjavik |
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Karst cave.
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| Light: | electric. |
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Reykjavik City Museum, The Settlement Exhibition, Aðalstræti 16, 101 Reykjavík, Tel. +354 411 6370.
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| Last update: | $Date: 2007/11/19 21:32:17 $ |
This part of the Reykjavik City Museum is an underground museum, and as such listed here. On display are the country's oldest ruins, which have only recently been unearthed. When the construction of a new hotel started at this place, very old foundations were discovered and the build was put on hold. Archaeological teams started an excavation and discovered relics dating back to Iceland's very first settlers. A C14 test, a geophysical method for age determination, resulted in an age of 871±2 AD, hence the name of the excavation.
The first settlement was covered by a tephra layer deposited in a volcanic eruption. The remains of a farmstead were preserved until the hotel started. After the excavations the building was completed above the excavation, which is now protected by the whole building.
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