Medieval History
Using a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and magnetometer, surveys have revealed the settlement in Sandefjord in Gokstadhaugen, eastern Norway, has 15 buildings, an 80-metre long street and a port.
Archaeologists from Oslo?s Museum of Cultural History and the Norwegian Institute for Cultural heritage Research (NIKU) were among those that made the discovery, in cooperation with Vestfold County.
Work in Gokstadhaugen began in 2011 with drilling there, as well as experts making geophysical surveys from the sea a northwards in what is called Gokstad Valley (Gokstaddalen).
NIKU?s Knut Paashe told Aftenposten, ?There is no doubt that we have encountered a market town-like structure from the Viking age with houses and streets.?
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Medieval History
New Norway Viking settlement discovered
Archaeologists from Oslo?s Museum of Cultural History and the Norwegian Institute for Cultural heritage Research (NIKU) were among those that made the discovery, in cooperation with Vestfold County.
Work in Gokstadhaugen began in 2011 with drilling there, as well as experts making geophysical surveys from the sea a northwards in what is called Gokstad Valley (Gokstaddalen).
NIKU?s Knut Paashe told Aftenposten, ?There is no doubt that we have encountered a market town-like structure from the Viking age with houses and streets.?
Click here to read this article from The Foriegner
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Knut Kjeldstadli of the University of Oslo has led a group a researchers who have studied Norway?s immigration history from the Viking Age up to the present. He says the tracks left by immigrants and visitors traverse the entire period. ?Irish slaves...
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