A huge house about 60 meters long from the late Iron Age has been found in Norway near the site where a Viking-era ship was discovered in 2018.
The structure is noted to be one of the largest ever found in Scandinavia. It is among several other builds that archaeologists have stumbled upon in an area that they believe was central to the Late Scandinavian Iron Age some 1,500 years ago. The results of the study were published by the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research.
Long and narrow buildings have been found in Gellestad 86 km southeast of Oslo by using GPR. In addition to the 60-meter house, the researchers also found four other buildings, approximately 15-30 meters long and 13 meters wide.
Scientists estimate that the area was used from the 5th century AD tountil about 1050.
Specialists hope to uncover the relationship between the ship, the buildings and the elevation of the central sites in the coming years.