ABSTRACT
Heimdalsjordet a new trade and production site from the Viking Age was partly excavated in 2012 and 2013. It is situated in a valley at what was in the Viking Age a well-hidden natural harbour, located by a small strait that connected the inner reaches of the two fjords Mefjorden and Sandefjord behind the island of Vesterøya. This chapter provides a first preliminary report and discussion of the site for an international readership. The excavations at Heimdalsjordet were conducted within the framework of the research project 'Gokstad Revitalised' (GOREV), which is collaboration between the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, the Section of Cultural Heritage Management at Vestfold County Council and Vestfold Museums. The area of Heimdalsjordet was therefore given high priority when the geophysical campaigns of the GOREV project were carried out in 2011 and 2012. More than 60 ha in the surroundings of the Gokstad mound were surveyed using magnetometry and high-resolution georadar.
