Studies in settlement archaeology in the parish of Vendel. A preliminary report

Abstract

This paper deals with some aspects of the settlement and the economical and social structures in the parish of Vendel during prehistoric times. Vendel was probably permanently inhabited already during the Bronze Age, bur it was not until the Migration Period that a massive colonization took place and that the central plain was taken into possession. The settlement established at that time was of varying nature, with bod1 manors and possible village structures. During the Iron Age, the landscape consisted of large wet-meadow and forested area . Its potential ro make cattle-breeding possible on a large scale may have been the reason or one of the reasons both for the colonization and the upswing of the area during this period.