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Geophysical investigations were carried out on Veøya in June 2011. The main objective of
the investigations was to detect archaeological structures, both known and unknown, at two
churchyards dated to the 10th century (Solli 1996). Georadar and methods detecting magnetic
susceptibility revealed anomalies pointing to distinct zones of human activities. The
distribution of black soil in relation to the stone walls enclosing the churchyard was detected
and confirmed observations made during Brit Solli’s excavations in the early 1990s. In
churchyard/enclosure no. 1 postholes associated with the remains of three buildings (Figure
14) were detected, two of them probably church-buildings; the older was small, and the
later, larger church may be associated with the Cross-Church mentioned in documentary
sources in the mid-14th century. The third and smallest building detected may have been a
bell-tower/campanile (Norw. støpul).
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