The castle Vivesholm is located about two miles north of Klintehamn on the west side of Gotland. The castle was built around year 1395 and burned down in the end of the 14thcentury. Around the 17th and the 18th century the castle was re-used. However, the emphasis on its use is during the middle ages. This paper aims at getting an insight in the animal husbandry at Vivesholm by analyzing the osteological material. The analysis revealed that bones from sheep/goat were more common than bones from cattle. This means the inhabitants most probably eat meat from smaller herbivores more often than meat from cattle. Pigs have also been consumed at the castle but not in the same extent as sheep/goat and cattle. Hunting as well as fishing hasn’t had a significant role for the inhabitants of Vivesholm, at least not in terms of bones found from e.g. game and fish. The inhabitants of the castle probably had its own stock but also a supply of meat products from elsewhere. Further aim with this paper was to illustrate the use of the house foundations at Vivesholm. For this, the result from the osteological analysis was compared with the archaeological finds. The analysis revealed that Vivesholm probable were built to be in use for a long period, but when the castle was burned down in the end of the 14thcentury, the castle had an abrupt end. The different foundations, both within and outside the dyke, have been interpreted into a smithy, a storehouse, a house for cooking and a lodging house. Inside the northern parts of the castle there was a place for butchery and most of the osteological material comes from this place.

Husgrunder stödjer hela hus och ska vara stadiga nog för att ta upp husets vikt och bära byggnaden i många år utan att drabbas av problem orsakade av bland annat fukt och tjäle. Det finns tre grundkonstruktionstyper som tas upp i detta arbete. Dessa är: platta på mark, krypgrund och plintgrund. Syftet med arbetet är att undersöka konstruktion och funktion för de tre grundkonstruktionerna. Arbetet redovisar också vilka grunder som är förekommande vid nybyggnation av småhus i Örebro län, samt hur olika aktörer inom byggbranschen motiverar sina val med avseende på risken för fuktrelaterade problem. Inom detta examensarbete redovisas resultat från intervjuer med ett antal olika byggnadsaktörer som bygger med olika typer av grundkonstruktioner. Information har samlats in genom intervjuer med sakkunniga samt egen teorifördjupning i litteratur för grundkonstruktioner. Utifrån syftet med arbetet har teorin och resultaten från intervjuerna sammanställts. Platta på mark med underliggande isolering är den grundkonstruktion som framförallt väljs vid val av grundkonstruktion för nybyggnationer av småhus i Örebro län. Aktörerna upplever att denna konstruktion har många fördelar i jämförelse med de andra konstruktionerna: krypgrund och plintgrund. / Foundations support entire houses and are required to be adequately well-built to carry a building’s mass for many years without facing problems due to environmental impacts such as moisture and frost. This work covers three basic types of foundations; concrete slab, crawl space and block foundation. The aim of this work is to investigate the construction methods of the foundations mentioned above, which are used within the construction of single-family homes in the city of Örebro, Sweden. Additionally, the basis of selection of these foundations by various construction companies in respect to risk of moisture-related problems is examined. Information about the foundations is collected from scholarly literature as well as qualitative interviews with seven construction companies’ experts. Ultimately, this study found that concrete slab with underlying insulation is more commonly used within the construction of single-family homes in Örebro than the other alternatives. Operators find that this foundation has many advantages in comparison with the other foundation techniques.