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[ Ссылка ] Buy Quest a Coffee: [ Ссылка ] --- Long overdue, the archaeologists got the largest and most important single piece from the Gjellestad ship in one piece.
- I do not have a heart rate monitor on me, but the heart pump went well, says project manager Christian Løchsen Rødsrud.
It was an archeological world sensation when it became known that a Viking ship had been found on a field in Halden two years ago.
One year after the excavations started, the archaeologists have now lifted out the largest and most important single piece from the Gjellestad ship:
Five meters from the bottom of the boat, also called the keel. Looking for 1000 years in the earth.
- This is the raisin in the sausage or the jewel in the crown. We have been looking forward to this big piece. Now it is on the table and it looks great, says Rødsrud.
In addition, archaeologists have previously recorded some smaller pieces of between one and two meters.
Thus, a total of nine meters of the keel is preserved. This could provide answers to what kind of Viking ship it is, whether it had oars or sails, and whether the Gjellstad ship is younger or older than, for example, the Oseberg ship.
The excavation of the Viking ship should actually have been completed last autumn, but has taken longer.
It was also a long working day for the archaeologists on Thursday night when they were to extract what will become a national treasure. First, three metal plates were pushed under the long and fragile piece of wood. Eleven brackets half a meter apart were then attached to the keel to stiffen it.
All this was fastened in a long plank. Several hours of overtime, the archaeologists were able to extract the Viking history from the field in Halden.
The keel was then cleaned and digitally measured before being placed in a water tank for storage.
In 2018, the Gjellestad ship was found and located using georadar. Archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) were behind the discovery.
Then county conservator Morten Hanisch in Østfold county municipality said that they were sure that it was a ship they had found, but that it was difficult to know how much of the ship has been preserved.
Although project manager Christian Løchsen Rødsrud is excited about what they have taken out, he understands that some may be disappointed that there was not a whole Viking ship on the ground. He still believes that they have found enough for the Gjellestad ship to be exhibited.
- The rest of the ship can be produced digitally or you can build a copy and insert the keel as part of it. There are endless possibilities, says Rødsrud.
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