Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 4hAugust 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. 000 0
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5hWinter 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] 100 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5hSure, my dad's a good-looking fellow. But check out that 1960s snowmobile!!! 100 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5hAnd 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. 100 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5hLast 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. 100 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 17hHarper 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 060 6
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026#October #sunshine #gardening 000 0
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2026Hörni alla sportiga tjejer. Det här informationsanslaget sitter på kylskåpet på mitt jobb. 000 0
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026My 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. 210 2
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026Found 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 000 0
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026You 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 132 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026I have house plants in Hallstahammar! Monstera, angel-wing begonia, golden pothos! All cuttings from our house in Fisksätra. #bloomscrolling #home 030 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026I 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 000 0
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026I hate #LinkedIn so much. #academia 163 6
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026For shame, Iron Age Swedes. For shame. #pottery #archaeology 011 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026My dad's place is pretty spectacular. 101 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026People 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 303 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026Finger 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 044 4
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026Many 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] 011 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026Opaque 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] 131 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026Frightening noises from caves along the shore #olausmagnus 110 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026Is that a rune staff in your pocket? Or are you just happy to see me? #olausmagnus 030 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026Time to take my bike to the repair shop. #cycling 130 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026Very 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 131 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026@kytohanna heard my talk! #fantastika2026 #scifi 020 2
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026Hosting the #boardgames room at the #fantastika2026 #scifi con! First we've played Sechs nimmt, then Heckmeck. @bkhl is an evil player! 020 2
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026Renovating a log cabin. They literate number the logs by wall and number then from the ground up. A1, A2, B1, B2 etc. #architecture 011 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026Today 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] 010 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026#Space #Viking #scifi #books 022 2
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/20261953: a race of telepathic mutants, fighting for their existence. #scifi #books 010 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026USED #SCIFI PAPERBACKS. ONE ROOMFUL. #fantastika2026 140 4
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026Me and @tero , just two guys standing around looking handsome at the #fantastika2026 #scifi convention. 021 2
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026Just 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] 020 2
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. 010 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026And 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 000 0
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026This 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 023 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026Pear-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] 312 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026Here's me and Professor Terri of the Vikingology vodcast in Stockholm a month or two ago. ❤️ #viking 000 0
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026Japanese anemones, #roses #gardening #bloomscrolling 020 2
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026Hallstahammar has two big active factories. Here's one that's closed down. #postindustrial 010 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026Albäck 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 110 1
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026This 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] 131 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026Om 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. 331 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026Note the elegance with which I've made a longer box for this Vendel / Viking Period spearhead. #archaeology #museum 120 2
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026This 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 041 4
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026When 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] 030 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026VLM 30300-1509 Sala mining town, Early Modern Crossbow nut #archaeology 030 3
Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026Actual #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 134 4