Innlandet

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Norway’s largest known Viking Age hoard found

Analysis of two votive offering vessels from Pompeii is enhancing our understanding of Roman domestic rituals.

BELOW The Glacier Archaeology Program carries out archaeological fieldwork on the ice patches and glaciers of Norway (RIGHT), which presents some unique challenges but produces some truly incredible finds, like this 1,300 year old wooden ski (BELOW RIGHT).

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Norway: secrets of the ice

Over the last decade, 64 glaciers and ice patches in the Innlandet region have produced over 3,500 archaeological finds, from hunting tools and textiles to zoological material...

The Past

Centuries-old beeswax candle discovered at Norwegian glacier

As part of the project ‘Secrets of the Ice’, the Innlandet County-based Glacier Archaeology Programme (GAP) have been conducting surveys at Lendbreen since 2011, when the ice began melting away and exposing remarkable finds dating from the Roman Iron Age to the late medieval period.