A massive 1500-year-old boat house has also been found during excavations in Herad , Farsund in southwest Norway.

The boat house is so large that it is likely that it has been part of a regional effort, perhaps as part of a collective naval defense. A Longboat storage and repair yard?.

Archaeologists also found 2000-year-old grave in Herad.

Archaeologist Wenche Helliksen told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) that the grave, which included a person in a coffin roughly 2000 years old, was very special."This is a find that you make just once in a lifetime. I have been digging for 20 years and have never made such a find," Helliksen said.

The special ingredient in the find is the presence of textiles.

The Herad find is from the year 300 AD at the latest, and archaeologists believe it may rewrite the history of the area.

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Military or trade. Either way, that size facility is a clue to the scope of other activities. Thanks for bringing this item here.

Military or trade. Either way, that size facility is a clue to the scope of other activities.

Thanks Whirlwind. The related link about the Norwegian kid who found a Viking Ring inspired me to take my own kid to a local 3rd century BC temple near where I live. All we found today were a few unidentifiable fragments of ancient bronze and a bovine tooth in the excavated soil within the lower layers of the temple - the temple was a sacrificial site to Bulls - so the tooth may be relevant to its historic cult use.

At the Midgard facility in Norway found a Viking ring as "The students were rooting through unturned soil. As early as 1852 objects have been dug out of the Borre mounds, during road work. After that the area was plowed up, and recently archeologists have been using heavy machinery to turn the earth.If the ring is part of the ship's mound it is 1,100 years old, or more," The Viking ring will be sent to the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, and may become part of the Borre exhibition on display in Bygdoey.

Anyone else read P.V.Glob's 'The Mound People' ? .PV was an expert of BronzeAge burial mounds of the Nordic people. A great read if you can source it.

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