Despite each grave’s wealth of jewelry and personal belongings, none contain any bones from the Viking women themselves. One possible reason has to do with the environmental conditions of Skumsnes.

A stunning archaeological discovery in Norway sheds light on the status and influence of women during the Viking Age. The site, containing valuable artifacts and symbolic elements, offers insights ...

Three graves, in particular of Viking women, were further inspected ... Grave contained costume jewelry and brooches. Other grave saw stones placed in a boat shape. The boat size was four meters ...

Archaeologists recently unveiled remarkable treasure from an excavation at the Skumsnes farm in Fitjar last autumn, including ...

The brooches will undergo conservation work before ... The pieces were the "first real artefact evidence" that Viking women visited the island, Manx National Heritage (MNH) said.

They also found a triangular brooch with glass ... One of the women’s graves featured stones carefully arranged in the shape of a long Viking boat, likely as a ritual to aid her journey to ...

Søren Diinhoff / University Museum of Bergen Archaeologists have unearthed coins, jewelry and stones from graves in Norway that likely belonged to high-status Viking women, reports Science ...

Archaeologists recently unveiled remarkable artifacts from Viking graves in Norway ... which were filled with coins, jewelry and other treasure, belonged to wealthy women.