Archaeologists recently unveiled remarkable treasure from an excavation at the Skumsnes farm in Fitjar last autumn, including priceless Viking jewelry and coins.
The 10cm-long highly decorated bronze oval brooches, which date from the start ... The pieces were the "first real artefact evidence" that Viking women visited the island, Manx National Heritage ...
This includes a woman who was "buried in a wagon, the upper part of a Viking cart used as a coffin," as well as another grave containing a "fine bronze three-lobed brooch, a single red glass bead ...
We can also say that the bronze brooch bearing its ferocious animal ... leading us to rethink what Christianity really meant in that period. Viking society was also a culture of violence and ...
Within the grave, archaeologists discovered jewelry and oval-shaped brooches typical of Viking women’s attire ... What’s more, there was a bronze key in her grave. “Textile production ...