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Martin Rundkvist

@mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy
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Archaeologist, museum curator, table-top gamer, book worm, punster, science fan, blogger, Leftie, LGBTQ ally, Swede #archaeology #ttrpg #boardgames #books […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ archaeo.social/@mrundkvist, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h
August 1970, my parents are 27, hiking in Oviksfjällen with young friends who later became rich philanthopists. A funny thing about these fairly conservative young people is that it's kind of hard to date their clothing. They don't wear outrageous period fashion.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Winter of 1969-70, my maternal grandparents Ingemar (61) & Nella (58). He was an accountant and frustrated wannabe scholar who reminisced a lot about selling safety matches in the Punjab in the '30s. She had been his secretary and then became a housewife. They […] [Original post on archaeo.social]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Sure, my dad's a good-looking fellow. But check out that 1960s snowmobile!!!
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
And here's the first pic of the two of them together. They'd been a couple for about six years already: this is the first *slide* of them together.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Last year my mom bought a slide scanner and scanned several thousand pics from 1969-1991. I'll show you a few, slightly polished. Here's the oldest pic. April 1969. My (future) parents, both aged 25, are on a skiing vacation in Riksgränsen. Here's my mom.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
Harper Collins has recently put out an edition of The Hobbit with Tove Jansson's charmingly quirky illustrations for the Swedish 1962 edition! #tolkien #fantasy #moomin #books #art #illustration
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
#October #sunshine #gardening
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026
Hörni alla sportiga tjejer. Det här informationsanslaget sitter på kylskåpet på mitt jobb.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026
My co-worker's little boy was here the other day when I was absent. He left me a drawing. I asked his mom to show him this pic.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026
Found an unregistered site near my house: a hällkana, a slide created by young people in the 1800s. It's been truncated by post-WW2 construction. #archaeology
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026
You can't really tell now, but on this spot there used to be a sacred well where people made sacrifices to the saints, and around 1830 there was a small hydrotherapy establishment. Only the name of my street, Surbrunnsvägen, offers any reminder. #history
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026
I have house plants in Hallstahammar! Monstera, angel-wing begonia, golden pothos! All cuttings from our house in Fisksätra. #bloomscrolling #home
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
I am picking out gear from my stash in the shed for my drape runners in Hallstahammar. Never before have I felt more like Nadine Hurley in Twin Peaks. #twinpeaks
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
I hate #LinkedIn so much. #academia
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
For shame, Iron Age Swedes. For shame. #pottery #archaeology
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
My dad's place is pretty spectacular.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
People around Lake Mälaren in the later 1st millennium AD should never have been allowed to make #pottery. This is an indelible stain on Sweden's national honour, a weight that later generations can never shake. digitaltmuseum.se/0210214474056/karl #archaeology
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
Finger ring with the names of the Three Magi, AD 1300-1530. Found in Västerås, about 100 m from the Church of St. Nicholas. People wore these names to alleviate epilepsy and stop bleeding. digitaltmuseum.se/0210214475547/fin… #archaeology #catholic #medieval
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
Many archaeologists including myself have been fooled by the exquisite stoneware known as Selters bottles. It looks like high-end Medieval ware. It's actually historicising packaging for 19th century mineral water from the town of Selters in Hesse. This town […] [Original post on archaeo.social]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026
Opaque glass bead found in a grave at Åsen in Kolbäck during excavations in 1968-1970. This is an imported product dating from AD 1-160. To make the faces on these beads, you first built a long rod from smaller coloured "pixel rods", melted it solid, chopped […] [Original post on archaeo.social]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026
Frightening noises from caves along the shore #olausmagnus
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026
Is that a rune staff in your pocket? Or are you just happy to see me? #olausmagnus
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026
Time to take my bike to the repair shop. #cycling
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
Very happy with the response to my Edith Nesbit ghost story reading. Scheduled for 45 mins, entire audience stayed on for 75 mins to hear an extra story. ❤️ #horror #storytelling #fantastika2026
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
@kytohanna heard my talk! #fantastika2026 #scifi
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
Hosting the #boardgames room at the #fantastika2026 #scifi con! First we've played Sechs nimmt, then Heckmeck. @bkhl is an evil player!
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026
Renovating a log cabin. They literate number the logs by wall and number then from the ground up. A1, A2, B1, B2 etc. #architecture
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Today The Olivia Tremor Control's surviving members released the band's 3rd and apparently last album: "The Same Place". 27 tracks totalling 1:09, many of which have vocals by Bill Doss (obiit 2012) or Will Hart (obiit 2024). It's been a long creation. After […] [Original post on archaeo.social]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
#Space #Viking #scifi #books
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
1953: a race of telepathic mutants, fighting for their existence. #scifi #books
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
USED #SCIFI PAPERBACKS. ONE ROOMFUL. #fantastika2026
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Me and @tero , just two guys standing around looking handsome at the #fantastika2026 #scifi convention.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Just as I thought! My part-time home in Hallstahammar is on Surbrunnsvägen, literally "Sour Well Road", referring to a spring with alleged healing properties. And wouldn't you know it: though channelised and invisible today, the spring is in the Sites and […] [Original post on archaeo.social]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
#Hallstahammar has been completely transformed over the past 110 years. Here's the Häradsekonomiska map of 1911. Hamlets and fields.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
And here's the Gothic armlet from that grave. I've argued that they represent tribal elite women travelling from coastal Poland for marriage. digitaltmuseum.se/0210214853189/arm… #archaeology
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
This flanged bronze axe from the 1600s BC is lovely. And it gets even better when you learn that it was sold to Västmanland County Museum in 1923 by "K.J. Öberg, the vagrant" -- Sw. luffaren. digitaltmuseum.se/0210213222135/yxa #bronzeage #archaeology #homelessness
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026
Pear-shaped gold filigree pendant from the Early Roman Period phase B2, AD 80-160. Those are always very nice, but the really rare thing here is sharp close-ups of the pendant from the *top and bottom*. Never seen that before. Found by my old professor Åke […] [Original post on archaeo.social]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Here's me and Professor Terri of the Vikingology vodcast in Stockholm a month or two ago. ❤️ #viking
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026
Japanese anemones, #roses #gardening #bloomscrolling
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Hallstahammar has two big active factories. Here's one that's closed down. #postindustrial
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Albäck in Simtuna psh, VLM 9946 This is Borre Style, 875-950. But I don't know what the function of the object has been. #Viking #archaeology
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
This tray with fine metalwork that entered the museum collection early was poorly boxed and organised: objects with no box, objects in acidic boxes, objects with different inventory numbers sharing a box. Now I've re-boxed them all, and look forward to putting […] [Original post on archaeo.social]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Om du hälsar på mig här i den arkeologiska samlingen är det ingen risk att du får en dansk skalle. Men jag kanske ger dig en Fyndask.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Note the elegance with which I've made a longer box for this Vendel / Viking Period spearhead. #archaeology #museum
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
This object from a 19th century collection is classified as "Unknown" in the catalogue. It's a lake find from Gotland. It's a Late #Viking Period mace head, 11th century. #archaeology
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
When museums bought private collections in the 1800s, they usually got a catalogue full of pretty ignorant attempts to classify the finds, and these errors often got copied into museum catalogues. This little brass figurine was classified as a "bronze herm" […] [Original post on archaeo.social]
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
VLM 30300-1509 Sala mining town, Early Modern Crossbow nut #archaeology
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026
Actual #warhammer, my guess at its date is 1400-1599, found during dredging and donated in 1876. I've asked my historian friend to read the label, much of which I can't crack. @bookandswordblog can tell us much more about this piece. #medieval #archaeology
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