Image Credit : Eva Gjerde - Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger
ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A 20-METRE-LONG VIKING SHIP DURING EXCAVATIONS OF THE SALHUSHAUGEN BURIAL MOUND IN KARMØY, NORWAY.
The mound was first investigated over a century ago by the archaeologist, Haakon Shetelig, however, excavations at the time showed no evidence to indicate that a ship was buried in situ.
“He was incredibly disappointed, and nothing more was done with this mound,” says Håkon Reiersen, an archaeologist at the Museum of Archaeology at the University of Stavanger.
Archaeologists returned to the mound in June 2022 to conduct a ground-penetrating radar survey (GPR), a geophysical method that uses radar pulses to image the subsurface and detect archaeological features.
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