The toolbox before Nanna Holm began to dig [Credit: Stine Jacobsen, Videnskab.dk]
The lump of soil was removed from the area around one of the fortress’ four gates and it contains the remains of a collection of tools, which probably once lay inside a Viking toolbox.
The toolbox is the first direct indication that people have lived in the fortress. There have been only a handful of similar discoveries around the world.
ScienceNordic was allowed to help archaeologist Nanna Holm excavate the toolbox as it was opened for the first time in 1,000 years.
Tools scanned at the hospital
The exciting find first came to the attention of Holm and her colleagues when a couple of amateur archaeologists with metal detectors found a signal near to the fortress’ east gate.
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