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Melting glaciers in Norway reveal a lost Viking-era mountain pass scattered with perfectly preserved

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Elderberry:
Daily Mail by Jonathan Chadwick 4/16/2020

Melting glaciers in Norway reveal a lost Viking-era mountain pass scattered with perfectly preserved artefacts up to 1,700 years old including knitted mittens, a wooden whisk and a broken walking stick with a runic inscription

•   Newly-discovered artefacts in Norway mountains date as far back as AD 300

•   They are from a mountain pathway used by long distance travellers and traders

•   The melting of the mountain glaciers means historical objects are being revealed

Melting glaciers in Norway have revealed ancient artefacts dropped by the side of a road more than 1,000 years ago.

Clothes, tools, equipment and animal bone have been found by a team at a lost mountain pass at Lendbreen in Norway’s mountainous region.

A haul of more than 100 artefacts at the site includes horseshoes, a wooden whisk, a walking stick, a wooden needle, a mitten and a small iron knife.

The team also found the frozen skull of an unlucky horse used to carry loads that did not make it over the ice.

More: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8224817/Melting-ice-reveals-lost-Viking-mountain-path.html

Smokin Joe:
But I thought we'd be flying off the hockey stick by now?

(Oh, yeah, /sarc)

This is neat, and doubtless a wonderful time capsule.

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