The UK mainland’s first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been uncovered in the north-west Highlands, archaeologists have said.
The site, at Ardnamurchan, is thought to be more than 1,000 years old.
Artefacts buried alongside the Viking in his boat suggest he was a high-ranking warrior.
Archaeologist Dr Hannah Cobb said the artefacts and preservation make this one of the most important Norse graves ever excavated in Britain
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Dr Cobb, from the University of Manchester, a co-director of the project, said: This is a very exciting find
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She has been excavating artefacts in Ardnamurchan for six years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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