May
22
/ 2021
Archaeologists from Flinders University in Australia working on a Danish ship burial site on the ex-Viking island of Hjarnø, in modern-day Denmark, have created quite a stir in the field of history and archaeology. The renewed explorations of the Kalvestene site was in part inspired by a 17th century illustration by Ole Worm. The resulting research paper, published in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology (JICA), has provided added understanding of the Danish ship burial site. The Danish Ship Burials at Kalvestene This site called the Kalvestene (translating as “the calf stones”) is a grave field with ten small but distinct ship burials from the Viking Age, dating back to between 800 and 1050 AD. Kalvestene is a comparatively
