- Archaeologists in Sweden dug up 139 Viking Age graves when excavating a Stone Age settlement.
- Along with human and animal remains, the team found three large ship-forming stone settings and a ship form mound likely used as massive grave markers.
- Only about six percent of the burial ground has been excavated, leaving plenty of history yet to be revealed.
It was supposed to be a routine Stone Age settlement excavation to clear a path for a new roundabout and water pipes near Tvååker in southern Sweden. It turned into so much more, as archaeologists first started uncovering furnaces and flint before stumbling upon 139 cremation graves and stones that were once a part of ship-shaped graves.
This wasn’t an average Stone Age settlement. Excavators had found a Viking Age burial ground.
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