Skatt eller skräp? En studie av fältarkeologisk dokumentation.

This thesis deals with the documentation of non-prioritised material during archaeological fieldwork. The main questions are whether there is a difference in the documentation of the non- prioritised material, between rescue archaeology and research archaeology and what the reasons for such a difference may be related to. Furthermore, the thesis deals with what arch-aeologists write say and do about the subject. To answer these questions, I analyse three different projects; Two research projects, Zvejnieki (Latvia) and Monte da Igreja (Portugal), and one rescue archaeological project, Gyllins Trädgård (Sweden). The most important result is that there is as great a difference between the two research projects as there is between the research projects and the rescue archaeological project. Many similarities can be seen in the projects conducted at Monte da Igreja and Gyllins Trädgård. The observations, what the archaeologists say and the literature show that there are differences in what the archaeologists say, write and actually do. Furthermore, my hypothesis about the lack of a widespread discussion about the non- prioritised material seems to be correct since a small majority of the interviewed archaeologists believe so to