The boat-types were quite varied depending on what the ship was intended for but they were generally characterized as being slender and flexible boats with symmetrical ends with true keelThey were clinker built which is the overlapping of planks riveted together.

Viking boat excavation. Last year a viking ship grave was discovered by new georadar technology near Halden in south-east Norway. Archaeologists found the Viking ship grave in the Oslofjord region of south-east Norway the same region in which the countrys other famous Viking ships were discovered more than 100 years ago. This summer Norwegian archaeologists embarked on an ambitious tricky venture last attempted in the country more than 100 years ago.

An interim report on the excavation of a Viking boat-grave at Skamby in Östergötland Sweden in July and August 2005 Howard Williams and Martin Rundkvist Abstract The paper provides an interim report on the 2005 excavations by co- directors Martin Rundkvist and Howard Williams in a VendelViking period Excapades boat-grave. A full archaeological excavation of the Viking ship at Gjellestad in Norway will commence this Friday. Its the first such excavation in Norway for about a hundred years.

Excavation leader Christian Rodsrud says Jell Mound marks the site of. This latest discovery is the first ship to be excavated in over 100 years. Ad Gordys Marine has offices in Fox Lake and Chicago to better serve our Illinois customers.

In 1867 on a farm Nedre Haugen of Rolvsøy island near Fredrikstad there was an unexpected discovery of a Viking ship burial mound. Excapades 1 1 2005 1-20 Theres Something A-Boat Skamby. Ad Gordys Marine has offices in Fox Lake and Chicago to better serve our Illinois customers.

So if this excavation is successful this will be the Viking ship to be excavated after more than 100 years. One cemetery had an undisturbed ship burial with a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts. They hope to compete their work this month.

The excavation of a new Norwegian Viking Ship has just started. New and used models available. Dedicated to a Viking warrior who must have died from battle wounds the Gokstad ship was a part of a Viking burial mound.