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Irish town emerges as Viking trade center
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2008/05/17 - 20:57.
801 CE to 900 CE | BBC News | Irish | Scandanavian
Excavation for a highway by-pass have unearthed evidence of a Viking trading center in Woodstown in County Waterford, Ireland. Over 5,000 artifacts have so far been discovered dating to the year 860.
Experts believe that the town was an important Viking trading center. "There can be little doubt that many, if not all of the settlement's occupants were either Scandinavian, or had strong insular Scandinavian associations," said a report on the excavations. |
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