Viking Ship under Pub

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Well, technically, it's under the pub's parking lot. In 1938, the first time it was discovered, when the old pub was moved back and a new car park built, the foreman told the workers to bury it again so construction wouldn't be delayed. BBC News Story.

Somehow, it seems really fitting that a Viking ship should turn up in a pub's parking lot; they were just about a millennium too early to get their pints.

Comments

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

That is too cool.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Oh, did you see the story about the Viking queen they just exhumed?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070910/ap_on_re_eu/norway_viking_grave;_ylt=AvsbveV1bIXTbP61R.XGHWOs0NUE

[aelfgyfu_mead]

No, I hadn't seen that! Thanks for the link!

Archaeology is the only field I know where they set things aside for the future hoping that techniques and technology will allow them to do a better job. So far, they've generally been right, but the water in the queen's casket has got to be a big blow....