Archaeologists Make 'Very Special' Viking Era Discovery in Norway as per (Forbos website)
Wael Al-Habbash
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Almost one thousand years after the end of the Viking Age, Norwegian archaeologists have made a sensational find near Halden in the south-east of Norway. The burial mound and adjacent field harbour several longhouses and at least one ship burial.
Digital data visualizations reveal the well-defined 20-meter-long ship-shaped structure, with indications that the lower part is well preserved. Incredibly, the ship lies just below the topsoil, with just 50cm separating it from the fresh air.
The discovery was made quite by accident when a local farmer wanted to dig ditches to solve an ongoing drainage problem in a boggy field. In previous years trenches in the area had turned up items of interest, so archaeologists from ?stfold county decided to try a non-intrusive method of analysis before giving the work the go-ahead.
The farmer is now being paid compensation for the lost land to allow archaeologists further time to analyze the site. Since the find late in 2018, the team has returned to obtain more data and map the wider area.
The discoveries were made by the archaeologists Lars Gustavsen and Erich Nau from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU). Gustavsen talked to Forbes about the ‘very special find’.
link(https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/02/16/archaeologists-make-very-special-viking-era-discovery-in-norway/#1d1ba9cc335e)