The aim of the project is to spend three years investigating the area of prehistoric and historic remains found at the large burial ground in Ytterby. Nordic experts believe that the area contains aristocratic house remains that can probably be linked to the Norse and historical sources of Kungahälla. The project also aims to place the settlement in a larger regional context with the ancient remains rich area around Nordre älv, where a social organization can be discerned already during the oldest Iron Age. Smaller investigations in the immediate area around Ytterby can provide important clues to the development that made the site so important during the Late Iron Age and the Middle Ages. The project is based on three years of field investigations comprising three months of fieldwork and five months of finds processing and report writing.