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<< Text Pages >> Ahvenkoski Harbour - Ancient Village or Settlement in Finland

Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 23 October 2013  Page Views: 2922

Multi-periodSite Name: Ahvenkoski Harbour
Country: Finland Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kotca  Nearest Village: Ahvenkoski
Latitude: 60.500000N  Longitude: 26.485000E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Settlement in Kymenlaakos, Finland.
Discovered in 2010. A large harbor, dating from around 1000–1200 AD at the mouth of western branch of the Kymijoki River in Finland. Findings include a smithy, a iron smelting furnace, forceps, as well as hundreds of iron objects such as boat rivets.

Note: Iron Age Site Discovered in Finland
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Iron Age Site Discovered in Finland by bat400 on Wednesday, 23 October 2013
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In the autumn of 2010, local amateur archaeologists discovered a large harbor, dating from around 1000–1200 AD, in Ahvenkoski village, at the mouth of western branch of the Kymijoki River in Finland. The findings included a smithy, a iron smelting furnace, forceps, as well as hundreds of iron objects such as boat rivets, similar to those found at Viking settlements in different parts of the Baltic, Scandinavia, Scotland and Iceland.

More recently, in August of 2012 and in the same area, a 2 x 3 meter wide late Viking Age or Crusade period cremation grave was uncovered. Artifacts included a battle axe, a knife, a fire steel and a bronze penannular buckle, all associated with burned human bones. Similar objects have been discovered in the Baltic Sea area and in Ladoga Karelia. Identical cape buckles have also been found in Gotland.



According to Timo Miettinen, leading archaeologist in Kymenlaakso, the findings are exceptional and the Ahvenkoski grave can be considered the most significant Viking Age or Crusader period burial site discovered in the Gulf of Finland. Previously it was thought that the coastal side of the Gulf of Finland was completely uninhabited during the late Iron Age.

When researchers of the Finnish National Board of Antiquities conducted their own survey of the area in 2005, nothing was found. Significant portions of {the site was] destroyed by construction of a new highway from Helsinki to Kotka, without conducting proper scientific investigation.



Thanks to coldrum for the link. Source: popular-archaeology.com/issue/september-2012
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