June
25
/ 2024
In 2018 metal detectorists in Norway found curiously shaped and obviously old iron rivets scattered around in the shallow soil of a field at Jarlsberg Hovedgård (Jarlsberg Manor), the ancestral home of the aristocratic Wedel-Jarlsberg family. Further investigations by professional archaeologists have found proof that this site near the historic city of Tønsberg in Vestfold county once featured a burial mound, and that a large Viking ship was entombed inside of it along with the deceased. Today, there are no signs of the burial mound present on the earth’s surface. Its location was long ago repurposed for agricultural activity, and repeated plowing of the field obliterated the mound completely. However, a team of archaeologists from the University of Oslo was
