En georadar har avdekket spor av et vikingskip og en rekke gravhauger og hus fra jernalder ved Jellhaugen i Halden kommune.

Film: The Gjellestad Ship

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Here is a short film about the ship find.

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Archaeologists armed with a motorized high resolution georadar have found a Viking ship and a large number of burial mounds and longhouses in Østfold County in Norway

The discoveries were made by the archaeologists Lars Gustavsen and Erich Nau from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) with technology developed by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro).

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Follow this space for more news on the ship burial find: https://www.niku.no/en/prosjekter/jellestadskipet/