index A sword was found in Langeid, Bygland (Setesdal, S. Norway) in 2011. It is a unique sword from the late Viking Age, embellished with gold, inscriptions and other ornamentation. It is now being displayed for the first time in an exhibition entitled “Take it Personally” at the Historical Museum in Oslo. A special grave Archaeologists from the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo discovered a Viking burial ground in Langeid in Setesdal in southern Norway. “Even before we began the excavation of this grave, I realised it was something quite special. The post holes reveal that there was a roof over the grave, which is a sign that it had a prominent position within the burial ground. “But when we went on digging outside the coffin, our eyes really popped. Dating of charcoal from one of the post holes shows that the grave is from around the year 1030, at the very end of the Viking Age. “The sword is 94 cm long; although the iron blade has rusted, the handle is well preserved. The battle-axe
Institute Archaeology of the “Forbidden Hill” - Singapore History At the inception of a British settlement in Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles and John Crawfurd, the second British Resident of Singapore, found many vestiges of a much older settlement. Subsequent residents paid no attention to these remains, and all of them, including the Malay wall, the ruins of an ancient orchard, a bathing place, some brick buildings, pottery, and coins on the “Forbidden Hill” (Fort Canning Hill), and the Singapore Stone inscription at the mouth of the Singapore River, had disappeared by 1850. A chance discovery of some gold jewellery on the hill in 1928 did nothing to bring about a change in this attitude. In January 1984, the National Museum of Singapore and a few concerned citizens resolved to use modern archaeological methods to discover whether any pre-colonial remains could still be recovered on Fort Canning Hill. Excavations were also undertaken at the site of Singapore’s new Parliament House complex in 1995. In 2000, the old Colombo Court site was excavated.
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