ArchaeoHeritage - Intact Viking burial site found in UK

Archaeologists have found the first intact Viking boat burial site in the UK.The 5m-long grave contained the remains of a high-status Viking who was buried with an axe, sword, spear and bronze ring-pin. 

Excavations at the Ardnamurchan Peninsula [Credit: Ardnamurchan Transitions Project]

The 1,000-year-old find, on the remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula, in the Highlands, was made by Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, a team led by experts from the universities of Manchester and Leicester, CFA Archaeology Ltd and Archaeology Scotland. 

Other finds included a knife, a sharpening stone from Norway, a ring pin from Ireland and Viking pottery. 

Dr Oliver Harris, project co-director from the University of Leicester's School of Archaeology and Ancient History, said: "This project examines social change on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula from the first farmers 6,000 years ago to the Highland clearances of the 18th and 19th century. 

"It has also yielded evidence for what will be one of the best-dated Neolithic chambered cairns in Scotland when post-excavation work is complete." 

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Source: The Archaeology News Network