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Objects of South Scandinavian Flint in the Northernmost Provinces1 of Norway, Sweden and Finland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

J. G. D. Clark
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The data for this paper were obtained in the course of a journey round Scandinavia made during the summer of 1947 with the aid of a Leverhulme Research Grant. Most of the evidence is housed in the Tromsö Museum, the Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, and the National Museum at Helsingfors, and I am thankful to the authorities of these for ready access to their great collections and for help in many ways. A certain amount of the material from the northern provinces of Norway is contained in the Universitetets Oldsaksamling at Oslo and, since at the time of my visit the stone age collection was still in store from the war, I was not able to examine it in detail and have relied upon the works of Nicolaissen and Gjessing, supplemented by information obtained by correspondence. In the case of the material housed in the small but important collections at Umeå and Skellefteå, which I was unable to visit, I have relied upon articles by Dr Gustaf Hallström, whose knowledge of Norrland antiquities is unrivalled. While it is certain that a number of finds have escaped me, the evidence summarised in the Appendix can at least be taken as a minimum statement of what has already been discovered in territories, which owing to their remoteness, vast size—Norrland contains approximately four-sevenths of the whole of Sweden—and scanty population are still, so far as the Swedish and Finnish regions are concerned, comparatively unexplored archaeologically, when judged by the standards prevailing in other parts of Scandinavia.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 14 , 1948 , pp. 219 - 232
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1948

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viz. the Norwegian provinces of Nordland, Trams and Finnmark, the Swedish territory of Norrland, comprising Lappland, Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Ångermanland, Jämtland, Medelpad, Halsingland and Gastrildand, and the Finnish provinces of Lappland and Oulu.

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