Archaeologists May Be Exposing Ireland's Biggest Viking Trading Settlement

Archaeologists may be exposing Ireland's biggest Viking trading settlement

Excavations near Ireland's River Suir are raising the possibility that archaeologists have uncovered the country's largest Viking settlement, according to Archaeology Magazine. The site, located at Woodstown in southeastern Ireland, appears to preserve an unusually intact picture of how Norse settlers lived, traded, and built communities over 1,000 years ago. What happened? A joint team from Ireland and Norway is excavating the "fossilized" Wood…

In Waterford archaeologists are excavating what may be the largest Viking building found in Ireland

A team of archaeologists is excavating a major Viking Age structure at Woodstown, Co. Waterford, which may prove to be the largest Viking building ever discovered in Ireland.