The site may have been an upriver trading station, 6 km from the Viking town of Waterford.
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A single warrior grave with full battle armour was also discovered, but due to the acid soil no skeleton survived. Ships nails and rivets reflect their maritime basis. Exotic finds of possible Norwegian schist whetstones and a fragment of a silver Kufic coin from Byzantium reflect the wider world in which Vikings operated. Evidence of Viking metalworking in silver and lead was found, and the site has produced the largest assemblage of lead pan weights outside of Viking Dublin.
The archaeological evidence indicates that during the middle of the ninth century the site was occupied, and presumably taken over, by Viking raiders. Some finds, including copper-alloy stud mounts with gold foil and a copper-alloy book clasp may have been treasure trove from monastic raiding. silver), as well as iron working, stone, glass, bone, antler and amber. There was abundant evidence for craft-workings in fine metals (e.g. The limited archaeological excavation indicates Early Christian and Later Viking Age occupation of the site. THE VIKINGS will once again be remembered in Annagassan not once but twice tomorrow ( Thursday) night with the Keeper of Irish Antiquities, Eamonn P Kelly giving a talk on the discovery of the. Sub-surface archaeological remains extend c. prior to the construction of the N25 Waterford City Bypass. “The site of Woodstown straddles the south bank of the River Suir in Co Waterford and was discovered during test excavations carried out by A.C.S. The following text is from An tÚdarás um Bóithre Náisiúnta (National Roads Authority) The conference has an excellent line up of speakers and should. A quick announcement on behalf of Dundalk County Museum about a very interesting looking Viking conference (and exhibition), which is taking place in October. A general discussion of ritual hoarding is presented, and it is concluded that this practice may have been more commonplace than has generally been accepted to date and that some, at least, of the 'watery' finds from Ireland were indeed deposited in a ritual context.Excavation and geophysical surveys have located the probable site of the original longphort (a Viking winter base and ship harbour) at Woodstown, Waterford. Posted by Colm Posted on Septem1 Comment on Viking exhibition and Longphort conference, Dundalk County Museum. Some of the remaining silver hoards-from bogs, rivers, lakes, small islands and shorelines-which vary in terms of their contents, with both complete ornaments and hack-silver being represented, may have been ritually deposited, but this is difficult to establish with any degree of certainty. It is suggested that these types of hoards evidence a close economic relationship between the Hiberno-Scandinavians of Dublin and the Southern Uí Néill rulers of this area. Most of the crannog finds, which are invariably of silver, are from the midland region, and it is noted that a high proportion of them contain ingots and hack-silver and are thus most probably economic rather than ritual in function. It is noted that all recorded gold hoards, with one exception, have an apparent association with water or watery places and thus conform to the patterns noted elsewhere. This paper considers the evidence of those Viking Age gold and silver hoards and single finds from Ireland that derive from watery locations, including crannogs and their environs. There is also evidence, literary and archaeological, for the ritual deposition of some silver hoards in the Viking world.
It has been observed that Viking Age gold finds in Scandinavia and Britain are frequently associated with watery environments and may represent ritual or votive depositions.
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