ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND IRON AGE LONGHOUSES

Copenhagen, Dec. 6: Norwegian archaeologists said Monday they have found a cluster of longhouses, including one of the largest in Scandinavia, using ground-penetrating radar in the southeastern part of the country — in an area that researchers believe was a central place in the late Nordic Iron Age.

The longhouses — long and narrow, single-room buildings — were found in Gjellestad, 86 km (53 miles) southeast of Oslo near where a Viking-era ship was found in 2018 close to the Swedish border. “We have found several buildings, all typical Iron Age longhouses, north of the Gjellestad ship. The most striking discovery is a 60-metre (197-foot) long and 15-metre (49foot) wide longhouse, a size that makes it one of the largest in Scandinavia,” archaeologist Lars Gustavsen said.