Ingunn Marit Røstad

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2025). En merovingertids ametystperle fra Vestfold i Norge. In Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte; Kjellström, Anna; Ljung, Cecilia & Qviström, Linda (Ed.), Fragment av föremål, platser, kroppar och ord: En vänbok tillägnad Torun Zachrisson. Uppsala universitet. ISSN 9789186145477. p. 20–21. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Zachrisson, Torun (2025). Smycken og kvinnor i vendeltida Gamla Uppsala. In Zachrisson, Torun; Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte & Ljungkvist, John (Ed.), Från hallar till fynd i Gamla Uppsala. Stiftelsen Upplandsmuseet. ISSN 9789186145484. p. 193–232. Full text in Research Archive
• Kristoffersen, Elna Siv; Pedersen, Unn & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2025). Den lille hesten fra Sande på Lista. In Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte; Kjellström, Anna; Ljung, Cecilia & Qviström, Linda (Ed.), Fragment av föremål, platser, kroppar och ord: En vänbok tillägnad Torun Zachrisson. Uppsala universitet. ISSN 9789186145477. p. 66–67. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2025). Women, Warriors and the Negotiation of Identity in Migration-period Scandinavia. In Pedersen, Unn; Moen, Marianne & Skogstrand, Lisbeth (Ed.), Gendering the Nordic Past : Dialogues between Perspectives. Brepols. ISSN 9782503608877. p. 91–103. doi: 10.1484/M.WOP-EB.5.144357. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2024). Continuity in times of change: The Iron Age centre at Åker in Hedmark. Neue Studien zur Sachsenforschung. ISSN 2193-4185. 13, p. 183–196. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Pedersen, Unn & Christophersen, Axel (2024). The Scandinavian (Late) Iron Age and Middle Ages. In Rehren, Thilo & Nikita, Efthymia (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Archaeology (second edition). Academic Press. ISSN 9780323907996. p. 744–755. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00203-2. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In Scandinavian archaeology, the era between the 5th and the early 16th century is divided into two main periods: the Iron Age (CE 400–1050) and the Middle Ages (CE 1050–1537). The social and political development during these centuries was closely linked to contemporary European overall trajectories, while at the same time reflecting the particular geography of the region. Identities and mentalities, as well as political and economic ideas and practices were generated and transformed through interaction within an extended European area. Although an integrated part of Europe, Scandinavia evinced certain distinctive traits that became decisive for the historical processes of the region.

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2024). he Åker assemblage: Provenance and local workshop-traditions in the North Sea region in the late 6th and early 7th centuries. Praehistorische Zeitschrift. ISSN 0079-4848. doi: 10.1515/pz-2024-2038. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The so-called Åker assemblage, a collection of stray finds of weapon parts and warrior-related objects dating from c. AD 600, has held a prominent position in Norwegian archaeology since the discovery of the first objects on the estate of Åker in Hedmark in south-eastern Norway in the 19th century. The assemblage comprises high-status objects belonging to a warrior elite whose equipment display close similarities across the European Continent and in Anglo-Saxon England. In early research, many of the objects in the assemblage, e.  g., the renowned ‘Åker buckle’ with cloisonné and zoomorphic decoration, were ascribed a Continental provenance. More recent discussions, however, advocate a Scandinavian origin for all the objects in the assemblage. Yet, the question of where the items originally were manufactured was once more actualized when further objects belonging to the assemblage were unearthed by metal detectorists in the 1990s. Among the new finds were some Frankish types of belt mounts that are unique in a Scandinavian perspective and other items with similarities to related equipment found in other regions. The new items may thus potentially shed new light on the question concerning place of origin of the assemblage. The question of provenance, however, is tied up with the phenomenon of local workshop-traditions in Scandinavia and the North Sea region. New insights have been gained on this topic during recent years as several new production sites have been explored. Through a visual assessment of the new items in the assemblage and a discussion of related parallels, it is argued here for a yet unknown western Scandinavian workshop as the most likely source for several of the objects making up the Åker assemblage.

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2023). Flying riddles. Disentangling animal style elements on Merovingian-period bird brooches. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. Sivs festskrift, spesialutgave, p. 71–79. doi: 10.5617/pt.10685. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Flying riddles
 Disentangeling animal style elements on Merovingian-periode bird brooches

• Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2021). Echoes of the Past: Women, Memories and Disc-on-Bow Brooches in Vendel- A nd Viking-period Scandinavia. European Journal of Archaeology. ISSN 1461-9571. 24(1), p. 89–107. doi: 10.1017/eaa.2020.23. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article examines the development, handling, and depositions of disc-on-bow brooches from the sixth to tenth centuries AD in the Vendel and Viking periods in Norway and mainland Sweden. A revised typological framework is presented, and the context of these brooches explored. The authors discuss their preservation, re-use, fragmentation, and ritual meaning within ongoing social negotiations and internal conflicts from the late Vendel period into the Viking Age. References to the past in Viking-Age society and the significance of women for maintaining narratives of the past are considered, as are levels of access, control, and definition of narratives of the past in times of social redefinition.

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2021). First Ladies. Ornamental Bow Brooches and the Negotiation of Elite Female Status and Roles in Iron-Age Norway (c. 400-900 AD). Current Swedish Archaeology. ISSN 1102-7355. 29(1), p. 89–121. doi: 10.37718/CSA.2021.10. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  From the fifth century to the Viking Age in present-day Norway, certain women belonging to the upper strata of society were buried with high-quality ornamental bow brooches. Although adjusting to changing styles of decoration, the practical function and basic form of the brooches – a rectangular headplate, a bow and a rhomboidal footplate – remained more or less the same throughout the centuries they were in use. By exploring burials which include these ornamental accessories, I argue that the brooches functioned as an important factor in reproducing and continuously negotiating identity shared by certain women within the Scandinavian Iron Age elite.

• Rødsrud, Christian Løchsen & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2020). Hedmarkens merovingertid i et fugleperspektiv. In Rødsrud, Christian Løchsen & Mjærum, Axel (Ed.), Ingen vei utenom: Arkeologiske undersøkelser i forbindelse med etablering av ny rv. 3/25 i Løten og Elverum kommuner, Innlandet. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202632229. p. 175–186. doi: 10.23865/noasp.97. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Metal detecting at a cooking pit site at Rømma in Løten, Hedmark (discussed in chapter 7), lead to the discovery of a brooch formed like a bird. The brooch is unusual and has no exact parallels. This paper presents the bird brooch and discusses its chronological dating to the early Norwegian Merovingian Period, ca. 550 AD. Similar and associated iconography within the Hedmark region is considered, and we discuss why and how the brooch ended up at the cooking pit site. The aim of the paper is to consider the bird brooch from Rømma in a wider context and thus to regard it as part of a distinct tradition surrounding bird images in this period that is associated with a supra-regional warrior elite in Hedmark.

• Kristoffersen, Siv & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2020). Spenner i en overgangstid. Sene småspenner i den turbulente overgangen mellom eldre og yngre jernalder. Viking - Norsk arkeologisk årbok. ISSN 0332-608X. LXXXIII(1), p. 13–33. doi: 10.5617/viking.8244. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  To understand the transition between the Early and the Late Scandinavian Iron Age, and the turbulent time around the year 536, we are dependent on our ability to recognize the changes in the artefacts. A chronology with well-defined criteria concerning the latest phase of the Migration Period as well as the beginning of the Merovingian Period is, therefore, required. The small square-headed brooches with spade-shaped feet is one of the types replacing cruciform brooches in the late Migration Period. Our paper discusses their typology and chronology in relation to other late types of brooches and pots as well as early Merovingian types of jewellery, aiming at a more easily accessible synthesis of a complex chronological discussion. Finally, we comment on the definition and relationship of the chronological phases on both sides of the period transition, touching upon the implications for the social changes and the bearers of the brooches.

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2020). The Åker Assemblage - Fit for a King? A New Account and Discussion of a Collection of Treasure of the Norwegian Merovingian Period. Medieval Archaeology. ISSN 0076-6097. 64(1), p. 1–30. doi: 10.1080/00766097.2020.1754647. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the second half of the 19th and the early decades of the 20th centuries, an assemblage of stray finds dating to c AD 600 was collected at Åker in south-eastern Norway. The items included a cloisonné-decorated sword-belt buckle of exceptional quality, a pommel from a ring-sword, and various mounts and fittings from a shield, sword belts and hangers. In the early 1990s several metal-detector finds were made at the site, and it was clear that many of those had originally belonged to the same context as the earlier finds. This article presents and discusses the Åker assemblage on the basis of what has been added to the evidence, and of new knowledge about the site of Åker produced by archaeological excavation. The objective is to gain a better understanding of what the assemblage really represents.

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2019). I Åkerfunnets skygge. En fornem merovingertidskvinnes grav fra Åker i Hedmark. Fornvännen. ISSN 0015-7813. 114(1), p. 12–27. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This article presents a richly furnished female grave find of the Merovingian periodat Åker in Hedmark, Norway. The grave was excavated in the early 1870s, but eventhough rich female graves of this time are rare in Norway, the find has never beenpublished in its entirety before. Since it was a cremation grave and most of the gravegoods had been destroyed by fire, it was perhaps overshadowed by rich inhumationburials, as has been the fate of many of Merovingian Period cremation graves. Here I argue that this find is a unique source for understanding the life and cultural contactsof the elite residing at Åker in the phase following the so-called Åker find withthe famous cloisonné buckle. Through a detailed presentation of the grave monumentand grave goods, and a discussion of the implications of the cultural affiliationsreflected in both the objects found in the grave and the grave ritual, I offer aninterpretation of the woman's significance and her social role.

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2018). The immortal brooch. The tradition of great ornamental bow brooches in Migration and Merovingian Period Norway. In Vedeler, Marianne; Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Kristoffersen, Siv & Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas (Ed.), Charismatic Objects. From Roman Times to the Middle Ages. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISSN 9788202597245. p. 73–101. doi: 10.23865/noasp.51. Full text in Research Archive
• Vedeler, Marianne; Kristoffersen, Siv & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2018). Dressed for Ritual, Dressed for Life. A Migration-Period Grave from Sande in Norway. Medieval Archaeology. ISSN 0076-6097. 62(1), p. 1–27. doi: 10.1080/00766097.2018.1451470. Full text in Research Archive
• Kutzke, Hartmut; Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Vedeler, Marianne (2015). Verden vil bedras. Kopiering og manipulering av smykker. In Vedeler, Marianne & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (Ed.), Smykker. Personlig pynt i kulturhistorisk lys. Museumsforlaget AS. ISSN 9788283050226. p. 155–176. Full text in Research Archive
• Vedeler, Marianne & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2015). Om smykker og personlig utsmykning. In Vedeler, Marianne & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (Ed.), Smykker. Personlig pynt i kulturhistorisk lys. Museumsforlaget AS. ISSN 9788283050226. p. 7–16. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2015). Draktspenner i folkevandringstid: Smykker, folk og småkongedømmer. In Hedeager, Lotte & Forseth, Lars (Ed.), Dalemfunnet. Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 9788280842039. p. 55–67. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2015). Mot en ny tid? Merovingertidens ryggknappspenner som uttrykk for endring og erindring. In Vedeler, Marianne & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (Ed.), Smykker. Personlig pynt i kulturhistorisk lys. Museumsforlaget AS. ISSN 9788283050226. p. 181–210. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2012). En fremmed fugl: "Danske" smykker og forbindelser på Østlandet i overgangen mellom vikingtid og middelalder. Viking - Norsk arkeologisk årbok. ISSN 0332-608X. 75, p. 181–210. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2011). Beseglet og tapt : historien om Ingbret Olsens seglstamp. Viking - Norsk arkeologisk årbok. ISSN 0332-608X. 74, p. 265–278. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2008). Fugl eller fisk? En liten fugleformet spenne fra merovingertid. Viking - Norsk arkeologisk årbok. ISSN 0332-608X. LXXI, p. 103–114. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2008). En liten perle: om perler og magi i folkevandringstid. In Chilidis, Konstantinos; Lund, Julie & Prescott, Christopher (Ed.), Facets of Archeology. Essays in Honour of Lotte Hedeager on her 60th Birthday. Unipub forlag. ISSN 9788274773349. p. 439–450. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2003). Fra saksisk leiesoldat til prins Beowulf - Skandinavisk identitet i angelsaksisk England ca 450 - 800 e.Kr. Primitive tider. ISSN 1501-0430. p. 7–21. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2003). Båten som symbol i jernalderen og jernalderforskningen. Viking - Norsk arkeologisk årbok. ISSN 0332-608X. LXVI, p. 31–48. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2002). Gravhaugen på Skulberg - Branngraver, tradisjon og endring i eldre jernalder. Skrifter - Universitetet i Oslos kulturhistoriske museer. ISSN 1503-0792. 1, p. 267–278. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In the late Roman and early migration period, cremation is the dominating burial practice in the southeastern part of Norway. It is often implied that this form of burial is carried out in various sorts of ways during this period. However, not much research has been done concerning funeral rites connected with cremation in order to support this assumption. An investigation of a burial ground at Gunnarstorp, has shown that there is a tendency towards a uniformation of an earlier multivariate cremation practice in the late pre-Roman iron age and early Roman period (Wangen 1998a, 1998b). Through a comparative analysis of four recently excavated cremation graves from a burial mound at Skulberg in Østfold, dating ca 150 ¿ 500 AD, and contemporary graves from three further burial places in the same county, this tendency is followed here into the late Roman period. The uniformation of practice seems to be strongest in the middle of the 3rd and the 4th century, when the norm is that the remains from the pyre are spread out in a flake or patch. The cremation patch is usually covered by stones or cairns on top of which is built a round grave mound. This pattern partly changes at the beginning of the migration period, when the funeral rites once again seem to become more varied.

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• Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Kristoffersen, Elna Siv; Reiersen, Håkon; Pedersen, Unn; Amundsen, Marie D. & Oehrl, Sigmund (2025). Technologies – Knowledges – Sustainability : Crafting societies in the first millennium CE : Proceedings of the 74th International Sachsensymposion in Stavanger, Norway. Arkeologisk Museum i Stavanger. ISBN 9788277602059. 232 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2021). The Language of Jewellery. Dress-accessories and Negotiations of Identity in Scandinavia, c. AD 400-650/700. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202716202. 391 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Aannestad, Hanne Lovise; Elliott, Kathrine & Mansrud, Anja (2020). Fabelaktige dyr - fra jernalder og vikingtid. Ingunn M. Røstad, Hanne L. Aannestad, Katherine Elliott og Anja Mansrud (red.). Kulturhistorisk Museum. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Aannestad, Hanne Lovise; Elliott, Katherine & Mansrud, Anja (2020). Fabulous animals - from the Iron Age to the Vikings. Universitetet i Oslo. ISBN 9788280842121. 76 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Vedeler, Marianne; Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Kristoffersen, Siv & Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas (2018). Charismatic Objects. From Roman Times to the Middle Ages. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202597245. 230 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Vedeler, Marianne & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2015). Smykker. Personlig pynt i kulturhistorisk lys. Museumsforlaget AS. ISBN 9788283050226. Full text in Research Archive

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• Kristoffersen, Elna Siv & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2025). Blikk på Brunlanes gjennom spenner og andre sentrale metallfunn fra romertid til merovingertid. Full text in Research Archive
• Larsson, Åsa M.; Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Högberg, Anders (2024). Recensioner. Fornvännen. ISSN 0015-7813. 2024(1), p. 71–76. doi: 10.62077/R0KF8N.X3WREN. Full text in Research Archive
• Kristoffersen, Elna Siv; Pedersen, Unn & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2023). New Relief Brooches from Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Grav, Ellen J. & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2022). Ulven - fra krigerideal til demon. Spor. ISSN 0801-5376. 1, p. 26–31. Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2020). Stories in gold and red- brooches and the past in the early Viking age. Cambridge Core Blog. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Aannestad, Hanne Lovise; Elliott, Katherine & Mansrud, Anja (2020). Foreword, Fabulous animals - from the Iron Age to the Vikings. Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 9788280842121. p. 5–7. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Aannestad, Hanne Lovise; Elliott, Katherine & Mansrud, Anja (2020). Forord. In Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Aannestad, Hanne Lovise; Elliott, Kathrine & Mansrud, Anja (Ed.), Fabelaktige dyr - fra jernalder og vikingtid. Ingunn M. Røstad, Hanne L. Aannestad, Katherine Elliott og Anja Mansrud (red.).. Kulturhistorisk Museum. p. 5–7. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2020). Jewellery filled with power and life, Fabulous animals - from the Iron Age to the Vikings. Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 9788280842121. p. 44–50. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2020). Smykker fylt med kraft og liv. In Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Aannestad, Hanne Lovise; Elliott, Kathrine & Mansrud, Anja (Ed.), Fabelaktige dyr - fra jernalder og vikingtid. Ingunn M. Røstad, Hanne L. Aannestad, Katherine Elliott og Anja Mansrud (red.).. Kulturhistorisk Museum. p. 45–50. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Kristoffersen, Siv (2020). The hidden animals, Fabulous animals - from the Iron Age to the Vikings. Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 9788280842121. p. 38–43. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Kristoffersen, Siv (2020). De skjulte dyrene. In Røstad, Ingunn Marit; Aannestad, Hanne Lovise; Elliott, Kathrine & Mansrud, Anja (Ed.), Fabelaktige dyr - fra jernalder og vikingtid. Ingunn M. Røstad, Hanne L. Aannestad, Katherine Elliott og Anja Mansrud (red.).. Kulturhistorisk Museum. p. 38–43. Full text in Research Archive
• Krogness, Henriette Louise & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2018). Radiokontakten 22.11.2018 om smykker og kroppspynt. [Radio]. NRK P1+. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2018). Åker in Hedmark - A 6th Century Site that survived the Great Change. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2018). Hva kan smykker fortelle oss om fortidens mennesker? Norgeshistorien på nett. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2017). Åkerfunnet – Nytt om praktfunnet fra merovingertid. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2017). Åkerfunnet: Nytt om praktfunnet fra merovingertid. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2016). Den udødelige spennen – praktspennetradisjonen i folkevandringstid og merovingertid. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2016). Åkerfunnet – en konge verdig? Full text in Research Archive
• Glørstad, Ann Zanette Tsigaridas & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2016). Garnet Jewellery in Norway during the Merovingian and Viking Period. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2015). Krise eller kontinuitet på 500-tallet: Samfunnsendringer og skiftende smykkemoter. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2015). Mellom småkongetid og rikssamling: Samfunnsendringer og skiftende smykkemoter på 500-tallet. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2015). The immortal brooch: The tradition of the great ornamental bow-brooches in the migration and Merovingian period. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2015). Forfalskninger og etterligninger av smykker. Full text in Research Archive
• Kristoffersen, Siv; Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Vedeler, Marianne (2014). The Sande Find. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2013). Danske’ smykker i ‘norsk’ vikingtid. Full text in Research Archive
• Rundberget, Bernt; Aannestad, Hanne Lovise & Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2013). Sigurd (11) fant vikingegrav på gården. [Internet]. Lågendalsposten. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2010). Gullsverdknappen fra Øberg. Ida. Kulturbygd i grenseland. Idd og Enningdalen Historielags årbok.. p. 122–124. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Grydeland, Ivar (2008). Gudehov og gullgubber på Hov. [Radio]. NRK P2 / Verdt å vite. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Ashraf, Fawad (2008). NRK Østlandsendingen, innslag om Vikingtidssverd funnet på Skøyen i Oslo. [TV]. NRK1 Østlandssendingen. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Ashraf, Fawad (2008). Norge i dag. Innslag om funn av vikingtidssverd fra Skøyen i Oslo. [TV]. NRK1. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit & Franck-Nielsen, Øystein (2007). Gull alt som glimrer. [Journal]. Vårt land. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2004). Oppgjør med gamle stereotypier. Anmeldelse av Lars Ivar Hansen og Bjørnar Olsen: Samenes historie fram til 1750. Apollon : Forskningsmagasin for Universitetet i Oslo. ISSN 0803-6926. p. 48–48. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2001). Grundig om båtgraver fra Gamla Uppsala. Anmeldelse av Else Nordahl: Båtgravar i Gamla Uppsala. Spår av en vikingatida högreståndsmiljö. Med bidrag av Anita Malmius, Petra Molnar, Anna Kjellström och Bengt Schönbäck. Aun 29. Collegium Medievale. ISSN 0801-9282. 14, p. 169–172. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2021). Dress-accessories from Migration and early Merovingian-period Scandinavia, c. AD 400–650/700. Appendix. Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Arkeologisk seksjon . Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This report presents four groups of dress-accessories from the Migration and early Merovingian-period Scandinavia: cruciform brooches, relief brooches, clasps and conical brooches. The report comprises detailed information about the contexts of the finds presented in the form of a catalogue and a total of 39 tables. In addition, most of the tables containing information about graves and hoards are provided with supplementary text information. The finds constitute the basic data for the publication The Language of Jewellery – Dress-accessories and Negotiations of Identity in Scandinavia, c. AD 400–650/700 (Røstad 2021).

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2021). Dress-accessories from Migration and Early Merovingian-period Scandinavia, c. AD 400-650/700. DUO. Full text in Research Archive
• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2016). Smykkenes språk: smykker og identitetsforhandlinger i Skandinavia ca. 400-650/700 e.Kr. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Jewellery often occur in women’s graves from the period c. AD 400–650/700 in Scandinavia. On the basis of theories of ethnicity as a dynamic, situational and multidimensional phenomenon, and the concept of dress/costume as an active social element, four different types of Scandinavian jewellery, cruciform and square-headed brooches, clasps and conical brooches are examined as potential ethnic and/or cultural markers. An analysis of the geographical, chronological and contextual distribution of the selected types of jewellery shows that they acquire a function as an instrument in social, cultural and/or ethnic strategies of distinction during this period. As part of a dress/costume, the jewellery functions as a social field of signals. On one level the jewellery is used in ethnic discourses between a Germanic/Norse and Sami population and contributes to a strengthening of ethnic boundaries between the different cultures. At another level the jewellery functions as a means in negotiations of various local and regional groups within the Germanic/Norse culture. Furthermore, the jewellery is used to express different super-regional / Pan Scandinavian identities at the same time that it is involved in ethnic discourses that stretch across the North Sea to England and the Continent. The analysis shows that there is a dynamic between the emergence and development of political entities / petty kingdoms and ethnic/cultural groups throughout the period. The political situation continuously influences the manifestation of ethnic/cultural groups while the ongoing ethnic articulation has an effect on the existing socio-political structures. It is shown that women play an active part in the (re)production and negotiation of ethnic and/or cultural groups in the Migration and early Merovingian period, and this challenge earlier theories that ethnicity is a phenomenon which almost exclusively is associated with men/warriors in this period.

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (2011). Gulldepot fra folkevandringstid. Kleberget 38, 2/1323, Moss, Østfold. Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet I Oslo, Fornminneseksjonen. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Sommeren 2010 ble det funnet tre betalingsringer av gull i forbindelse med gravearbeider ved et kommunalt boligkompleks i Kleberget 38 i Moss (Askeladen lD-141155). Disse ble levert inn til fylket i midten av desember 2010, og 06.09.2011 ble det gjennomført en arkeologisk undersøkelse av lokaliteten. Boligtomten der funnet ble gjort ligger innerst i en blindvei i en vesthellende skråning ned mot Mossesundet, sør for Moss sentrum. Ved maskinell flateavdekking ble det avdekket to felt på til sammen ca. 37 m2, og de avdekte feltene ble systematisk gått over med metallsøker. På bakgrunn av landskapet, som var preget av bratte bergvegger, løse steinblokker og god utsikt vestover utover sjøen, samt gjenstandenes sammensetning, var det rimelig å anta at funnet representerte et depot fra folkevandringstid. Dette kunne imidlertid ikke belegges gjennom utgravningen. Jordmassene i begge de avdekte områdene var tidligere forstyrret, og en steinblokk som var antatt å ha sammenheng med funnets opprinnelige kontekst var flyttet på og lå ikke in situ. Det ble heller ikke funnet noen flere gjenstander som hadde sammenheng med funnet. Til tross for at opprimelig funnkontekst ikke lot seg påvise, tyder funnets sammensetning og topografi på at det dreier seg om et gulldepot fra folkevandringstid. Prosjektleder: Ingunn M. Røstad.

• Røstad, Ingunn Marit (1998). Kullgroper. Øverby, 47/3,14,51, Våler kommune, Hedmark. Universitetets Kulturhistoriske Museer Oldsaksamlingen. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  De 7 kullgropene som ble undersøkt var R 2, R 4, R 5, R 6, R 7, R 8, R 9, mens R 1 og R 3 bevares i kanten av industriområdet. Undersøkelsen viste at gropene hadde kvadratisk eller rektangulær form, og at det var benyttet furu til kullproduksjon. Kull fra 4 av gropene er C14-datert og resultatet viser at kullproduksjonen har foregått fra slutten av vikingtid til 1400-tall. Forbausende nok sprer dateringene seg svært jevnt: R 7: 995-1035 e.Kr, R 6: 1020-1175 e. Kr., R 8: 1165-1245 e.Kr. og R 2: 1300-1400 e.Kr. Dateringene er angitt med ett standardavvik (68 % sannsynlig datering), med to standardavvik (95 % sannsynlig datering) blir det naturlig nok større grad av overlapping. Dateringene faller innenfor det tidsrom med størst kullproduksjon i distriktet, som undersøkelser på Rødsmoen i Åmot k. og i Elverum k. har vist. Siden det ikke er kjent jernproduksjonsplasser i nærheten av undersøkelsesområdet i Våler, kan det dreie seg om produksjon av smiekull. Prosjektleder: Lil Gustafson.

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