Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than 50 years.

Viking boat graves discovered. Swedish archaeologists have uncovered two rare boat graves where high-status individuals were buried in a boat in the ground. Archaeologists made a fascinating find in Norway recently by uncovering not just one ancient Viking boat grave but two. Recent excavations of viking boat burials reveal the remains of a man a horse and a dog.

The Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research NIKU said that archaeologists discovered the anomaly in Østfold County. Ladby from Kerteminde on the island of. The ship was buried about 16 feet beneath the ground they said in a statement.

Vikings often buried important members of their society inside boat graves which is a mound that covers a longboat. Though boat burials date back to the Iron Age and were common in the Viking period only around 10 have been discovered in Sweden mainly in the Uppland and Västmanland provinces according to the. The 65-foot-long ship was covered over more than 1000 years ago to.

The 20-metre 65-foot long ship was covered over more than 1000 years ago to serve as the final resting place of a prominent Viking king or queen. To their astonishment what they detected was a 66-foot-long shipone of the largest Viking ship graves ever found. New and used models for sale.

Mysterious Viking boat graves found in mid-Norway - YouTube. And the mysterious bit is that the man and the woman in the double grave were buried 100 years apart. One of the boats is intact still holding the remains of a man a horse and a dog.

Mysterious Viking boat graves found in mid-Norway. Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered two rare Viking-era boat burial sites during an excavation in Uppsala. Archaeologists have discovered two Viking burial ships in Sweden in what is being hailed as a sensational discovery.