Sunday, 29 January 2012

Vikings Explore Hudson Bay

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Viking exploration of Hudson Bay will continue in 2013 when descendants of the first Viking voyagers to reach North America 1,000 years...

Evidence suggests Vikings grew grain in south Greenland

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Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew ...
Friday, 27 January 2012

Archaeology Courses at the Oxford Experience 2012

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The Oxford Experience Summer School 1 July to 11 August 2012 The 2012 Oxford Experience Programme is now online. The Oxfor...
Thursday, 26 January 2012

Mass grave belonged to Viking mercenaries

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The burial site, containing the bodies of 54 young men, was unearthed at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth in 2009 ahead of the construction ...

The Viking death squads who got a taste of their own medicine: Mass grave shows how the Anglo-Saxons hit back at invaders

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A mass grave found in Dorset contains the bodies of an elite ‘hit squad’ of invading Viking warriors, experts claim.  All decapitated an...

Viking mass grave linked to elite killers of the medieval world

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A crew of Viking mercenaries – some of the fiercest and most feared killers in the medieval world – could be the occupants of a mysterious...

Skeletons found in Dorset mass grave 'were mercenaries'

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A mass grave in Dorset containing 54 decapitated skeletons was a burial ground for violent Viking mercenaries, according to a Cambridge ...
Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Archaeologists dig spot where hoard was found

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS have examined the secret Furness site where a hoard of silver Viking booty was unearthed by a metal detectorist.  In Ea...

Outreach and widening participation

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Applications are now open for our annual Sutton Trust Summer School in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, which will take place on 13th-17th...
Monday, 23 January 2012

Researchers collect DNA from men with possible links to York’s Viking past

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MEN with Viking surnames filled the meeting room of New Earswick Folk Hall and queued to help research into the ethnic origins of the Bri...

Viking king discovery claims

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AN amateur historian from Yorkshire claims to have discovered a new Viking king of York. Musician and poet Damian Bullen has develop...
Monday, 9 January 2012

Archaeologists hunt for Viking heritage in Sherwood Forest

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The land surrounding a mysterious ancient monument in Sherwood Forest is to be researched after a local history group received a £50,00...
Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Was St Edmund killed by the Vikings in Essex?

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The story of Edmund, king and martyr, has become a kind of foundation myth for the county of Suffolk, but contains at least one element o...

Mysterious Viking-era Graves Found With Treasure

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Sword at his side, the so-called Young Warrior (left) is among the thousand-year-old discoveries in a newfound cemetery in Poland , a new ...
Monday, 19 December 2011

Silverdale Viking Hoard stars in Treasure and Portable Antiquities Scheme reports

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The British Museum is delighted with the continuing success of the Treasure Act and the Portable Antiquities Scheme, and they have every r...
Saturday, 17 December 2011

University of Oxford Online Archaeology Courses

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Enrolment is now open for the following University of Oxford online courses in archaeology: Archaeology of the Bible Lands (Online) Explorin...

Silverdale silver Viking hoard declared treasure

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A hoard of Viking silver found in Lancashire has been declared as treasure by a coroner. The hoard of 201 coins and pieces of jewelle...
Friday, 16 December 2011

Researchers puzzled as grave did not hold remains of medieval Swedish king

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Earlier this year, researchers in Sweden excavated what they believe was the tomb of King Magnus Ladulås (1240-1290) at Riddarholmen Ch...

Viking Hoard discovered in England

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In what is being described as a “very exciting find” over 200 items dating back to around the year 900 have been discovered near Silverda...
Thursday, 15 December 2011

Evidence for unknown Viking king Airdeconut found in Lancashire

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201-piece silver hoard from AD900 discovered by a metal detectorist in Silverdale, Lancashire Evidence of a previously unknown Viking ki...
Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Silverdale Viking hoard examined by British Museum

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A hoard of Viking coins and jewellery found buried in north Lancashire is being examined by experts at the British Museum. The colle...

Incredible Viking hoard from days of Alfred the Great could 'fill in the blanks' about a murky period in British history

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A man who found a hoard of Viking silver that had lain undetected for hundreds of years has described his discovery as ‘lucky’. Dar...

Viking hoard provides new clues to 'previously unknown ruler'

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One of the most important hoards of Viking silver ever found in Britain contains valuable coins bearing the identity of a previously unkno...

Evidence for unknown Viking king Airdeconut found in Lancashire

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201-piece silver hoard from AD900 discovered by a metal detectorist in Silverdale, Lancashire Evidence of a previously unknown Viking k...
Sunday, 11 December 2011

Archaeologists Return to Investigate Viking Period Site in Gotland

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he world’s largest silver hoard was discovered in an agricultural field on an island in Scandinavia. The hoard weighed about 67 kilos, co...
Thursday, 8 December 2011

Viking Quiz

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What do you know about the Vikings? Try this online quiz. It loads 10 randomly selected questions from a large database, so each time that...

How Scandinavian is Scotland?

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The Scottish government is exploring closer links with Nordic nations in the event of independence, reports have suggested. But just how ...
Friday, 2 December 2011

Archeological Discovery Indicates Human Sacrifice

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Archeological research of pagan graves in the valley Þegjandadalur in Suður-Þingeyjasýsla county in northeast Iceland support the theory ...

New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact

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Hundreds of metres under one of Iceland's largest glaciers there are signs of an imminent volcanic eruption that could be one of th...
Saturday, 12 November 2011

Vikings Navigated With Translucent Crystals?

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Icelandic spar may have revealed sun's position on cloudy days, study says. Vikings may have navigated by looking through a type of c...
Thursday, 3 November 2011

Magical Viking stone may be real

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A Viking legend which tells of a glowing "sunstone" that, when held up to the sky, disclosed the position of the Sun on a cloudy...
Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Icelandic rocks could have steered Vikings

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Vikings used rocks from Iceland to navigate the high seas, suggests a new study.  In Norse legends, sunstones are said to have guided ...
Monday, 24 October 2011

Viking Buried With Axe, Sword and Spear Found With Fully Intact Viking Boat Burial in UK

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The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlan...

Linn Duchaill: Ireland's unlikely Viking capital

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A windswept barley field just south of Dundalk seems an unlikely spot for Ireland's capital.  But if things had been different, A...
Sunday, 23 October 2011

Archaeology Courses at the Oxford Experience 2012

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1 July to 11 August 2012 The 2012 Oxford Experience Programme is now online. The Oxford Experience is a residential summer school...

It's a new Viking invasion of Britain – but this time it's cultural

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After the discovery of a Viking burial site in Scotland, Norse history and myths are the focus of a TV saga, epic novels and a major...
Saturday, 22 October 2011

Viking boat burial site ‘could boost tourism’

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THE discovery of a Viking boat burial site in the Highlands could boost tourism in the area if some of the artefacts can be retained at ...
Friday, 21 October 2011

Irish ring-pin found in Viking boat burial site

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A BRONZE Viking ring-pin believed to be from Ireland has been found buried with its owner in a major archaeological discovery in Scotlan...

Museums could bid for Ardnamurchan Viking finds

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Museums will have the chance to bid to exhibit artefacts from the UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial. Archaeologists ...
Thursday, 20 October 2011

Viking secret puts Ross-shire town on map

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AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL discovery in Dingwall could put the town on the international map and bring major benefits to Ross and Cromarty, expert...

Vikings and Scotland: 10 lesser known facts

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THE discovery of the first fully intact Viking burial site in the UK - on the Ardnamurchan peninsula - has rekindled public interest in t...
Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Found, the Viking war lord buried in his boat: 1,000-year-old tomb of Norse invader and weapons of war

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Judging from the opulence of his tomb, he was a revered Viking warrior destined to take his place in Valhalla among the honoured dead. ...

Viking boat burial find is UK mainland first

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The UK mainland’s first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlands. T...

A Viking treasure

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A boat burial on the peninsula of Ardnamurchan, in Scotland, reveals just how noble the Vikings were. Bad weather can have its comforts....

Viking burial boat surfaces after 1,000 years

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IT’S the sort of find most archaeologists spend their careers looking for, a discovery unseen by human eyes for more than a thousand year...

Viking artefacts show 'high-status' burial

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Archaeologists have discovered a Viking boat burial site in the Scottish Highlands. The grave contained the remains of a high-rankin...

Britain’s first intact Viking boat burial site unearthed

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A VIKING boat burial site, believed to be more than 1000 years old, has been discovered by archaeologists. The 16-and-a-half foot lo...

Ardnamurchan Viking boat burial discovery 'a first'

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The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been uncovered in the north-west Highlands, archaeologists have sa...

Viking chieftain's burial ship excavated in Scotland after 1,000 years

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Timber fragments and rivets of vessel, and deceased's sword and shield, unearthed undisturbed on Ardnamurchan peninsula A Viking shi...
Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Viking axe excavated after 1,000 years – video

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Oliver Harris of the University of Manchester lifts the axe in a soil block from a 1,000-year-old boat burial of a Viking chief. The boat b...