ABSTRACT
More than 100,000 medieval coins have been found in medieval churches in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Digitizing historical documentation from surveys in medieval churches for synthesizing powerful, new multilayered maps of church sites has provided a vital new resource for researchers within the project. This paper will focus mainly on a case study of Bunge church in Gotland, Sweden, for outlining challenges and opportunities of using geographic information systems (GIS) within this project. This demonstrates how we have reconciled analogue and digital datasets, with newly emerging patterns from which we can ask new questions, leading to new knowledge.
