Epic 11-foot-tall sea level rise drove Vikings out of Greenland They've revealed the impression of a ship about 65 feet (20 m) long. The signals come from ground-penetrating radar equipment, which uses the reflections of pulses of radio waves to reveal objects buried up to 100 feet (30 meters) beneath the surface. If they had dug deeper, they might have found the Salhushaugen ship, which seems to be buried within the rock layer - a practice that's also been seen at other sites, Reiersen said. Reiersen suspects Shetelig's team stopped digging when they struck a rock layer near the bottom of the mound. (An earlier ship burial, the Storhaug ship from 779, was discovered by other archaeologists beneath yet another nearby mound in 1886.) 795, and co-directed the excavation of the famous Oseberg ship burial, from 834, in the southeastern part of Norway.īut he was disappointed to find only arrowheads and wooden spades in the Salhushaugen mound. Shetelig had already discovered the nearby Grønhaug ship burial from A.D. The Salhushaugen mound, where the ship-shaped signals have been detected, was first excavated in 1906 by the Norwegian archaeologist Haakon Shetelig. Gill – The Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger) The archaeologists plan to make excavation trenches in the Salhushaugen mound to determine the likelihood that the Viking ship buried there is well-preserved.
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