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Sewer Line Workers Stumble on Viking Ship Timber
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Sewer line workers stumble on Viking ship timber
Work on a sewer line southeast of Amsterdam was paused recently, after construction crews discovered an unexpected and very large obstacle. According to a recent social media post from the Dutch town of Wijk bij Duurstede, municipal workers encountered a timber slab measuring over 10 feet -that likely belonged to a Viking era ship from around the 9th century CE. Although the maritime artifact will be the town’s first archaeological discovery of …
No similar finds have been made in Wijk bij Duurstede before — and ship finds of this kind are rare throughout the country.
A routine work in the Wijk bi Durstede Eskoto system, in the centre of the Netherlands, revealed a large wooden beam and other buried artifacts that can be part of an ancient Viking ship of about 1,300 years. The discovery re-encouraged interest in the historical importance of ancient Dorestad on commercial routes and... The post Parts of the 1300-year-old Viking Ship has been found during a network of estos appeared first on O Antagnonist.
What seemed to be more a working day on a street in the Dutch city of Wijk bi Durstede became one of the most surprising archaeological discoveries of the last few years in the Netherlands. A worked wooden beam, found under the floor during works of replacement of exchotos, may have been part of a ship of the age of Viking of the eighth century.
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