Melting Ice In Norway Reveal A Viking Era Artefacts Up To 1700 Years Old

Melting glaciers in Norway have revealed ancient artefacts dropped by the side of a road more than 1,000 years ago. Clothes, tools, equipment and animal bone have been found by a team at a lost mountain pass at Lendbreen in Norway’s mountainous region. A haul of more than 100 artefacts at the site includes horseshoes, a wooden whisk, a walking stick, a wooden needle, a mitten and a small iron knife. The team also found the frozen skull of an unlucky horse used to carry loads that did not make it over the ice. The objects that were contained in ice reveal that the pass was used in the Iron Age, from around AD 300 until the 14th century. The researchers say the melting of mountain glaciers due to climate change has revealed the historical objects, with many more to come. This climate-induced retreat of mountain glaciers has caused a new field of science called glacial archaeology. The resulting findings are a snapshot of high-altitude travel in the Roman Iron Age and the Viking Age. ‘A lost mountain