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Viking ship burials
Ladby shipOn the 28th of February 1935, a pharmacist named Poul Helweg Mikkelsen stumbled upon an ancient burial site near Kerteminde in northeastern Fyn.
Gokstad MoundIn 1879, a farmer in Sandefjord, Norway, noticed something unusual about the earth on his land. The soil formed a large mound that stood out against the flat…
Gokstad shipIn February 1880, the frozen ground of Gokstadhaugen yielded a wooden bow to the sons of the farm owner. Nicolay Nicolaysen arrived at the site shortly after…
Scar boat burialJohn Dearness stood on The Crook Beach in 1985. He saw bones sticking out of the ground near Scar on Sanday. A small lead object lay nearby.
ValsgärdeThe farm of Valsgärde sits on the banks of the Fyris river, just three kilometres north of Gamla Uppsala. This location served as an ancient centre for…
VendelVendel sits within the province of Uppland, Sweden. It overlooks Vendelsjön, a long inland stretch of water near the river Fyris.
Salme shipsEarth removal for infrastructure work in 2008 revealed the first shipwreck near the village of Salme on Saaremaa island.
Oseberg shipGabriel Gustafson and Haakon Shetelig began digging into the Oseberghaugen mound near Tønsberg in 1904. The Swedish archaeologist and his Norwegian colleague…