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Norway

Features/Issue 106/Norway

The Follo Line Project

Since 2013, the largest infrastructure project in modern Norwegian history has granted a team of more than 40 archaeologists an extraordinary glimpse…

Issue 105/News/Norway

Ship shape: Viking burial found

A Viking ship burial has been discovered at the site of Gjellestad in south-eastern Norway. It was first identified during a ground…

Issue 56/Norway/Travel

CWA travels to: Oslo

Down on the quayside in front of Oslo’s fabulously functional City Hall, a small queue of tourists gather to catch the ferry…

Issue 52/Great Discoveries/Norway

Gustafson at Oseberg

Gustafson’s excavation had provided an extraordinary window into the material culture and public appearance of the world represented by the Norse Sagas…

Issue 48/Features/Norway

Norway: The First Oil Age

The jagged coast of Northern Scandinavia is littered with strange stone-lined pits once thought to be ancient graves. In fact, they are…

Issue 47/Features/Norway

Norway: Searching in Veien

There is a field in Veien where horses’ teeth have been found in cooking pits, and a series of massive long-houses have…

Issue 45/Features/Norway

Norway Oseberg ladies

In August 1903 Gabriel Gustafson, director of the University Museum of Antiquities in Kristiana (now Oslo), received an unexpected visitor. The caller,…

Issue 44/Norway

Recycling the past

Iron-Age people had a conscious relationship with objects from earlier times that connected them to their past, says Olle Hemdorff at the…

Issue 27/Books/Norway

Ohthere’s Voyages

Ohthere was a Norwegian seafarer, who visited the court of Saxon King Alfred during the 850s AD. He was an honoured guest,…

Issue 26/Books/Norway

Kaupang in Skiringssal

Kaupang in Skiringssal (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series, Volume 1 – Norske Oldfunn XXII) edited by Dagfinn Skre Aarhus University Press, £39.95…

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Issue 13/Norway

Norway: Medallion and Silver Bead Found

Two boys discover artefacts dating between AD 900-1100 Tromsø, Norway…

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