“You are,” Smith says as I stare at the newly exposed bright filigree of the Viking sword found in a river I have spent a lifetime crossing, “only the sixth person to see this decoration since the ...
While the settlement was abandoned by the 10th century, it remains unclear if Viking activity directly caused this ... suggesting the possibility that the site was once home to a Bronze age workshop ...
The brooches appear to have been repurposed from the clasps of Carolingian sword belts ... along the country’s southwest coast. During the Viking Age, the site was a farm that likely belonged ...