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		<title>Viking Necklace Discovered in Glencurran Cave</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excavations by Dr Marion Dowd at Glencurran Cave, the Burren National Park (Ireland), led to a stunning discovery: a unique Viking necklace estimated to be 1,150-year-old. Necklaces dating to the Viking Age that have been found previously, usually had five to six glass beads, but this one has 71 beads covered with gold foil. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Odin from Lejre</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday, November 14, Roskilde Museum site published an article (in Danish), entitled &#8220;Odin fra Lejre&#8221; (&#8220;Odin from Lejre&#8221;). It tells about an exciting archaeological find, a small silver figurine discovered early in September at Lejre (municipality on the island of Zealand, Denmark). Amateur archaeologist Tommy Olesen was metal detecting near the site where archaeologists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oseberg Buddha</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oseberg ship was found in a large burial mound in 1904 near Oseberg farm, Vestfold county, Norway. It is believed to be one of the best preserved and most exciting Viking ship finds, even though the burial (dating to 834 AD) was looted as early as in the Middle Ages. The ship&#8217;s prow and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Ships Found Over the Last 12 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As far as I was able to find out, at least eight important viking ship finds have been reported over the last twelve years. In July 1997 a joint expedition of the Center for Russian Underwater Archaeology and Archeoclub d&#8217;Italia discovered a wreck of a 9th or 10th century Varangian ship in Dalnaja Bay near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lewis Chessmen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lewis chessmen were probably made in Norway about AD 1150-1200 by craftsmen in Trondheim, where similar pieces have been found. Some researchers think that the chessmen were lost or hidden during their transportation from Norway to Viking settlements on the east coast of Ireland. They were discovered in 1831 in the vicinity of Uig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Burial Site in Cumwhitton, Cumbria</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/02/viking-burial-site-cumwhitton-cumbria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In March 2004 amateur archeologist Peter Adams found two Viking copper brooches on a farmland in Cumwhitton, near Carlisle, Cumbria, using a metal detector with permisson from the landowner. Mr Adams immediately reported this important find under the Portable Antiquities Scheme. This led to the discovery of six Viking graves, dating from the early 10th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harrogate Hoard &#8211; A Viking Treasure Find</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/02/harrogate-hoard-viking-treasure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007 a father and son metal detecting team found a major Viking hoard near Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The trove of coins and jewelry, which dates back to the 10th century, was the largest find of such type in Britain since the Cuerdale hoard was discovered in Lancashire in 1840. David Whelan, 60, and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viking Lenses from Visby, Sweden</title>
		<link>http://www.vikingrune.com/2009/01/viking-lenses-visby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several 11th century hoards found at Viking sites on the island of Gotland, Sweden, contained biconvex lenses made from rock-crystal. Some of them were set in silver. A few lenses had an almost perfect elliptical shape. The symmetry of the lenses as well as their biconvex elliptical form and fine polish, which resulted in a [...]]]></description>
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