Norwegian archaeologists find late Iron Age longhouses

[Still Waters]

Norwegian archaeologists said Monday they have found a cluster of longhouses, including one of the largest in Scandinavia, using ground-penetrating radar in the southeastern part of the country—in an area that researchers believe was a central place in the late Nordic Iron Age.

The longhouses—long and narrow, single-room buildings—were found in Gjellestad, 86 kilometers (53 miles) southeast of Oslo near where a Viking-era ship was found in 2018 close to the Swedish border.

"We have found several buildings, all typical Iron Age longhouses, north of the Gjellestad ship. The most striking discovery is a 60-meter (197-foot) long and 15-meter (49-foot) wide longhouse, a size that makes it one of the largest we know of in Scandinavia," archaeologist Lars Gustavsen at Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research said in a statement.

https://phys.org/news/2021-12-norwegian-archaeologists-late-iron-age.html

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60 metre longhouse discovered with GPR near Viking ship at Gjellestad

https://www.niku.no/en/2021/12/60-metre-longhouse-discovered-with-gpr-near-viking-ship-at-gjellestad/

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[taniwha]

The past seems so endless

[Tatetopa]

Very impressive.  Forgive my imperial measurements, but a building of 200 feet by 50 feet requires a lot of material and labor.  That is a lot of resource to invest in a building.

[SHaYap]

2 hours ago, Tatetopa said:

Very impressive.  Forgive my imperial measurements, but a building of 200 feet by 50 feet requires a lot of material and labor.  That is a lot of resource to invest in a building.

You don't get good trees that good anymore... 

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