Archaeologists Will Excavate A Viking Ship For The First Time In Over 100 Years

For the first time in a century, archaeologists will excavate a buried Viking ship. Located a less than a metre below the surface, the ship is being ravaged by fungus, forcing archaeologists to act quickly.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Archaeologists Will Excavate A Viking Ship For The First Time In Over 100 Years

For the first time in a century, archaeologists will excavate a buried Viking ship. Located a less than a metre below the surface, the ship is being ravaged by fungus, forcing archaeologists to act quickly.

more…

> Scientists had been reluctant to dig it out for fear of damaging it further.

Always a problem with excavating wood. Wood has components cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. And they degrade at different rates. Lose any one, which is extremely common, and the rest is softer than window putty. It sort of becomes like excavating toothpaste.

> The Gjellestad Ship was discovered in 2018 with ground-penetrating radar, and it sits just 50 centimetres beneath the surface on a farm in Norway’s Østfold county. It’s around 20 metres long and around 1,200 years old, though the dating remains a rough estimate.

Nice! circa 800 AD would be just about right for the Viking era.

> the only three previous digs of Viking ships came in 1868, 1880, and 1904, and these excavations were not conducted with modern techniques and methods.

There are new methods?

> the scientists will try to collect genetic evidence, fats, stomach contents, and a chemical map of the area if any human remains are found.

A chemical map would be worthwhile even if no human remains are found.

The Gjellestad Ship was discovered in 2018 with ground-penetrating radar, and it sits just 50 centimetres beneath the surface on a farm in Norway’s Østfold county. It’s around 20 metres long and around 1,200 years old, though the dating remains a rough estimate.

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