ARCHEOLOGISTS are bidding to shed light on one of Notts' most mysterious ancient monuments.
Three years ago the Forestry Commission revealed that the Friends of Thynghowe had found a Viking meeting place in the Birklands, part of Sherwood Forest, near Mansfield.
The earthen mound has now been listed on English Heritage's National Monument Record.
New studies have also found the name Thynghowe in an ancient Sherwood Forest book dated to around the 1200s.
But more research is needed to understand its mysterious story.
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