The concepts of location, place and space are central to the study of archaeology and heritage, and furthermore inherently multi-disciplinary. The activities and relationships to place are therefore a key element to the palimpsestic make-up of the historic environment, and in combination can help develop the understanding of the space we inhabit today. As such they are fundamental to the relationship we build with our surroundings, both academically and colloquially.

As part of the ATRIUM project, this paper presents the development of a demonstrator for using GIS based software and open sourced data, for linking and visualising multi-disciplinary spatial data. This is the outcome of international collaboration between the Swedish national Data Service at the University of Gothenburg and the Archaeology Data Service at the University of York. The goal is to link and visual a dataset of agraro-historical data from parish registers in the Swedish county of Östergötland, to combine with archaeological and historical data from varying sources to develop a curiosity-driven methodology that can be followed by various actors. The goal was not therefore to answer a specific question, but to highlight what can be done with data reuse and visualisation, and to inspire a range of new audiences to explore the links to physical space with tangible historical and archaeological assets.