historicaldetailsandstuff: The 9th-century Gokstad ship in situ,...

historicaldetailsandstuff:

The 9th-century Gokstad ship in situ, Vestfold, Norway. It was excavated in 1880 from a burial mound 162 ft wide and 16 ft high where, again, blue clay had preserved it.

The Gokstad ship as reconstructed, in the Viking Ship Museum at Oslo.