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LEFT The waterlogged deposits permitted spectacular preservation of wooden artefacts. This 13th century wooden head, which probably belonged to a staff, was found lying in a medieval ditch.

The Follo Line Project: Exploring medieval Oslo

Since 2013, the largest infrastructure project in modern Norwegian history has granted a team of more than 40 archaeologists an extraordinary glimpse of medieval Oslo. One of the biggest questions they aimed to answer is what the medieval town really looked like. Thomas Wrigglesworth shares some of their discoveries.