The metal detector discovers a rare boat grave that contains a Viking woman and her dog

The proverb says that the dog is the best friend of a man, but the archaeological excavation in Norway proves that women care about their four friends as men do, even 1100 years ago.

Archaeologists from the North Arctic Museum in Norway revealed the tomb of boats in the tenth century on the Norwegian island of Singa. The buried individual is likely to be a woman belonging to the elite separation, such as Norway science I mentioned for the first time. It is worth noting that the team found a carefully buried dog at its feet.

“It seems that real care has been developed,” said Anja Ruth Nimi, an archaeologist in the museum who was supposed to have participated in the fossils. “There are stories of prominent people who do everything in his strength when their dog became sick. Even at that time, people had deep links with their animals.”

The metal detector discovered the first pins and the bones remained on the site only 7.9 inches (20 cm) under the ground two years ago. A suspect for a Viking woman’s burial, the North Arctic University Museum in Norway to obtain an investigation permission and finally managed to perform the appropriate excavation when the land owner decided to expand a garage in property.

“After removing the upper layer of the soil, it became clear that this is a grave of a boat,” the museum wrote on social media. mail. “The wood -decomposing wood was visible as a thin dark tape in the soil, with the site where the bowls of the bowl were found in the middle.”

The work of a 17.7 -feet boat (5.4 meters) was revealed in which a Viking woman and a dog were buried alongside things associated with the burial of the elite, including bone or amber grains, necklace, and decorative tanks, according to Norway. This is not the first time that archaeologists have found The dog is still on the side of VikingBut it provides more evidence that dogs were valuable comrades even 1100 years ago.

Brouches – damaged with silver thread – recorded the history of the team to nearly 900 to 950 m, according to Science Norway. It also indicates that the buried individual was a woman, given that oval pin was usually women’s jewelry, although only bone analysis could be confirmed without a doubt. Moreover, the tomb of boats and goods completely indicates that the woman was a high -ranking individual.

“Only the elite will receive such a burial,” Nimi told Science Norway. Nimi and her colleagues also revealed agricultural tools and textile tools, which link the latter to burial with the Vikings femininity. Other procedures will emphasize the gender of the individual and the light climbing on its age, length, diet and health, while providing more insight into Viking traditions. Moreover, after the discovery of another brooch that is not far from burial, archaeologists hope to continue to investigate the area in the hope of finding another grave.

According to the participation of the museum, the last days of the excavation were spent “all the contents of the grave were registered and secured for transportation and storage so that they can be examined in detail under conditions subject to control in the laboratory in Tromsu.”

I hope that they will maintain the woman and her pet together in Tromsu, so that the dog can continue to guard her owner in the afterlife as they were likely to be alive.