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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
Tue Oct 16, 2018, 03:56 PM Oct 2018

Ancient Viking Ship Found Buried Next to Busy Norwegian Freeway

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Ancient Viking Ship Found Buried Next to Busy Norwegian Freeway



Ancient Viking Ship Found Buried Next to Busy Norwegian Freeway

George Dvorsky
Today 9:40am



The buried ship as seen by ground-penetrating radar.
Image: NIKU

{The image came from another site. I can't copy images from Gizmodo, due to their format.}

Using ground-penetrating radar, archaeologists in Norway have discovered an ancient Viking ship buried just 20 inches beneath the surface of a farmer’s field. The 66-foot-long ship, deliberately buried during a funeral ritual, appears surprisingly intact—and it could contain the skeletal remains of a high-ranking Viking warrior.

It’s called the Jellstad Ship, and it was discovered on farmland in Østfold county in southeast Norway. The site, known as Viksletta, is near the the large and fully intact Jelle burial mound, which can be seen from the busy Norwegian Rv41 118 freeway.

Archaeologists with the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU), with the help of radar specialists from Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro), detected the vessel using mobile ground-penetrating radar. The discovery is significant in that it’s only the fourth Viking ship burial ever discovered, according to Knut Paasche, head of the Department of Digital Archaeology at NIKU.
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Ancient Viking Ship Found Buried Next to Busy Norwegian Freeway (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2018 OP
I loves stories like this padah513 Oct 2018 #1
I can't wait until ground-penetrating radar Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2018 #2
What kind of witchcraft is this? Blue_Tires Oct 2018 #3
Cool! And an awesome image. lagomorph777 Oct 2018 #4

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
2. I can't wait until ground-penetrating radar
Tue Oct 16, 2018, 10:35 PM
Oct 2018

is so sophisticated that geologists and archaeologists can search the ground beneath out feet and see what's there.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
4. Cool! And an awesome image.
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 11:34 AM
Oct 2018

GPR is going to expand our knowledge of the world by leaps and bounds.

It literally knows where the bodies are buried.

Hey Trump - WATCH OUT! GPR is coming!

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