Archeologists working at Dysnes, a recently discovered Viking age burial site in Eyjafjörður fjord in North Iceland are still busy excavating invaluable treasures. Hundreds of items have been found at the site, among them two swords, three spears and three shields.
A total of six Viking age graves have been found at the site, including two confirmed boat burials. Only two of the burials have been fully excavated and archeologists are currently exploring the third burial. The site is unusual for many reasons, not least that two boat burials have been discovered: Viking age boat burials are very rare in Iceland.
The site has been badly damaged by erosion. Almost half of one of the burials already excavated had been washed away by the sea. Hildur Gestsdóttir, who is in charge of the dig, told the local news site Vísir that despite the erosion the site had already yielded so many items the team no longer took any special note when new skulls or weapons were found:
"We are now finishing excavating the third burial of six we have located. It has been damaged by erosion, and it seems grave robbers have also disturbed this burial at some point. ... Two swords, three spears, three shields and peals, its a lot of stuff, and we are no longer surprised when we find new items."
Another reason the site is unusual is the size of the burials found: "All the burials are huge, we are talking about 8, and even 9 meter long burial mounds, far larger than anything we have seen at other sites. We have been speculating if this is connected to some regional tradition not found in other parts of Iceland."
More at
http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/pearls-viking-swords-spears-and-shields-among-hundreds-items-excavated-n-iceland
With thanks to Roy Batham for the link
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