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Viking Buried With Axe, Sword and Spear Found With Fully Intact Viking Boat Burial in UK Posted: 24 Oct 2011 11:07 AM PDT The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlands. The 5m-long grave contained the remains of a high status Viking, who was buried with an axe, a sword with a beautifully decorated hilt, a spear, shield boss and bronze ring-pin. The Viking had been buried in a ship, whose 200 or so metal rivets were also found by the team. The 1,000-year-old find, on the remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula, was made by the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project (ATP) which is a team led by experts from the Universities of Manchester, Leicester, CFA Archaeology Ltd and Archaeology Scotland Read the rest of this article...

Linn Duchaill: Ireland's unlikely Viking capital Posted: 24 Oct 2011 11:05 AM PDT A windswept barley field just south of Dundalk seems an unlikely spot for Ireland's capital.  But if things had been different, Annagassan near Castlebellingham might have been the principal city on the island of Ireland. Twelve hundred years ago it was the site of Linn Duchaill, one of the first Viking settlements, which rivalled Dublin in size and importance. Folklore said it was there, but all traces of it had disappeared, until a group of archaeologists and local historians set out to prove its existence. Read the rest of this article...

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