Info Of The Toy Boat That Sailed The Seas Of Time

Some tyke probable played alongside this carved wooden boat a K years ago. It was works life inwards an abandoned good during an extensive archaeological dig at the Ørland Main Air Station, on the coast westward of Trondheim.

Credit: Åge Hojem, NTNU University

A K years ago, for reasons nosotros volition never know, the residents of a tiny farmstead on the coast of fundamental Kingdom of Norway filled an quondam good alongside dirt.

Maybe the H2O dried up, or possibly it became foul. But when archaeologists works life the quondam good in addition to dug it upwards inwards the summertime of 2016, they discovered an unexpected surprise: a carefully carved toy, a wooden boat alongside a raised prow similar a proud Viking ship, in addition to a hole inwards the middle where a mast could convey been stepped.

"This toy boat says something nearly the people who lived here," said Ulf Fransson, an archeologist at the Norwegian University of Science in addition to Technology's (NTNU) University Museum in addition to i of ii champaign leaders for the Ørland Main Air Station dig, where the good in addition to the boat were found.

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