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.

Viking boat graves. NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology. CNN Archaeologists have uncovered two rare Viking boat graves in the Swedish village of Gamla Uppsala. Fantastically Preserved Viking Boat Grave and Skeletons Unearthed in Sweden By Yasemin Saplakoglu 08 July 2019 Recent excavations of viking boat burials reveal the remains of a man a horse and a.

November 2019 - 1335. By Frid Kvalpskarmo Hansen. A Viking ship at the museum in Denmark similar to other burial boats.

In the second half of the 9th century an important woman dies at the farm now known as Skeiet at Vinjeora in central Norway. Mysterious Viking boat graves unearthed in central Norway. Inside spectacular boat graves dated to what Norway calls the Merovingian period the era just before the Viking Age scientists found a down bedding under two warriors.

The boat burials found in Gamla Uppsala join a string of Viking-related finds in recent years including the revelation that a high-ranking warrior found in a 10th century Swedish grave was. The boats carrying the two dead men were about 10 meters long with room for four to five pairs of oars. Nevertheless they were buried together.

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

A complete Bronze Age spearhead has been discovered by a metal detectorist on the island of Jersey. Two Viking boat graves have been uncovered in Sweden in what archaeologists are describing as a sensational discovery. 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.