Some of these boats have even been recovered and are currently on display in Denmark at the Viking Ship Museum.

Viking boat graves. Archaeologists taking part in a routine dig in Gamla Uppsala Old Uppsala 46. In the second half of the 9 th century an important woman dies at the farm now known as Skeiet at Vinjeøra in central Norway. Dated to the 10th century the burial consists of a Viking boat about 5 metres 16 ft long by 15 metres 49 ft wide in which a man was laid to rest with his shield sword and spear as well as other grave goods.

A study by the Ca Foscari University of Venice has discovered the remains of a Roman port at the ancient city of Altinum in Italy. It is only when the boat is buried that the Vinjeøra Vikings do something that will intrigue archaeologists more than 1000 years into the future. Nevertheless they were buried together.

A complete Bronze Age spearhead has been discovered by a metal detectorist on the island of Jersey. The Port an Eilean Mhòir ship burial is a Viking boat burial site in Ardnamurchan Scotland the most westerly point on the island of Great Britain. By Frid Kvalpskarmo Hansen.

Two people died roughly 100 years apart. Mysterious Viking boat graves unearthed in central Norway. Vikings often buried important members of their society inside boat graves which is a mound that covers a longboat.

November 2019 - 1335. In the second half of the 9th century an important woman dies at the farm now known as Skeiet at Vinjeora in central Norway. NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than 50 years. Frid Kvalpskarmo Hansen fridhansenntnuno. The boats carrying the two dead men were about 10 meters long with room for four to five pairs of oars.