Ardnamurchan Viking boat burial discovery 'a first'

[Logan]

'The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been uncovered in the north-west Highlands, archaeologists have said.

The site, at Ardnamurchan, is thought to be more than 1,000 years old.

Artefacts buried alongside the Viking in his boat suggest he was a high-ranking warrior.

Archaeologist Dr Hannah Cobb said the "artefacts and preservation make this one of the most important Norse graves ever excavated in Britain".

Dr Cobb, from the University of Manchester, a co-director of the project, said: "This is a very exciting find."

She has been excavating artefacts in Ardnamurchan for six years.'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...lands-15333852

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/13212

[Aces High]

The Ardnamurchan Viking was found buried with an axe, a sword with a decorated hilt, a spear, a shield boss and a bronze ring pin a a bronze drinking horn.

My people. up

[microrobert]

Ardnamurchan Viking boat burial discovery 'a first'

The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been uncovered in the west Highlands, archaeologists have said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...lands-15333852

[AussieScott]

Awesome. Probably a Dane.

[Hevneren]

The Ardnamurchan Viking was found buried with an axe, a sword with a decorated hilt, a spear, a shield boss and a bronze ring pin a a bronze drinking horn.

My people. up

Your people, Anglo-Saxon? You Anglos want to claim everything as yours, just like the Germans. How typical.

[Hevneren]

Awesome. Probably a Dane.

Probably more likely to be a Norwegian.

[Osweo]

Your people, Anglo-Saxon? You Anglos want to claim everything as yours, just like the Germans. How typical.

The man buried was more likely to leave sons and daughters HERE, my lad! I myself have ancestors from that part of Scotland...

[Aces High]

Probably more likely to be a Norwegian.

Hardly...the archeologists didnt dig up any acne cream or any Aha CD's.

[Hevneren]

The man buried was more likely to leave sons and daughters HERE, my lad! I myself have ancestors from that part of Scotland...

He came from us, sonny, not from you Anglo-Saxon Englishmen. I know you English like to pretend and put on historically inaccurate horned helmets, but it doesn't change history, or geography for that matter.

[The Lawspeaker]

He came from us, sonny, not from you Anglo-Saxon Englishmen. I know you English like to pretend and put on historically inaccurate horned helmets, but it doesn't change history, or geography for that matter.

If he was Norwegian then what the hell happened with Norway if it could produce men like him during the Viking Age and obnoxious little teenagers like you today ? Talk about dysgenics...