- Our work at the Huldahóll mound on the Hrísbrú farm in 2002 and 2003 confirmed the earlier observation in the 2001 field season that humans constructed portions of this impressive mound, looking west out to the ocean at the seaward entrance to the Mosfell Valley.
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In 2001, while excavating a small trench near the top of the knoll, we encountered a calcined fragment of a human cranial vault. The dense concentration of charcoal and ash with fragments of burnt bone and remnants of metal artifacts found at the base of the soil horizon near the skull fragment strongly suggested that we had identified the remains of a Viking Age cremation site placed in a mound modified to resemble a symbolic ship.
- In 2002 and 2003, we excavated additional sections of the buried ash and charcoal deposit on the top of the Hulduhóll mound, finding three further cremated human skull remains.
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