It has been a dry spell insofar as posts to this blog are concerned, but here's an excerpt from an article in Smithsonian Magazine to give you something to obsess about other than the worldwide CCP-19 (Chinese Communist Party)virus scam. (Ed.)
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Archaeology
Student Finds Viking Trading Post in Norway
Artifacts
unearthed at the site include jewelry, coins and pieces of silver
Artifacts found at the site include jewelry from Asia (left) and an inscribed weight possibly imported from Ireland. (Julie Holme Damman / Arctic University Museum of Norway / Tor-Ketil Krokmyrdal)
By Alex Fox
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM
JULY 24, 2020
A
graduate archaeology student has discovered a previously unknown Viking trading
post in northern Norway, report Torgeir Skeie and Laila Lanes for Norwegian
broadcast network NRK.
As
detailed in his newly published master’s thesis, Tor-Ketil
Krokmyrdal of the University of Tromsø—the Arctic
University of Norway used a metal detector to locate objects dated
back to the Viking Age at the Sandtorg farm in Tjelsund, located between
Harstad and Narvik.
Sandtorg farm in Tjelsund
Per
David Nikel of Forbes, the artifacts include jewelry, coins and pieces of
silver used as currency, as well as objects likely imported from the British
Isles, Finland and mainland Europe.
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