Thermonuclear datings

Detailed descriptions and tabular results are given on the sparse experience so far gained in Norway on the use of thermoluminescence in archaeological dating. The first experiments, in 1972-74, were on burnt clay pots from graves from the bronze and early iron ages and the Roman period. Only relative ages were given. A year later ceramics from the later Roman period were dated. In the same year cooking stones from sites on the Hardanger plateau were dated, and this time background measurements were made. (JIW)