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New Viking Discovery in Dublin
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Dublin, Ireland is a modern European capital city. Traffic snakes bumper to bumper with glass towers rising up around it. But that’s only the surface. Stop. Look closer. History waits at every step. Some sights are iconic. You see them replicated on a whole range of Irish gifts. The Guinness complex. The Four Courts and the Custom House. The GPO has a starring role and an unmissable spot on O’Connell Street. But there is another layer beneath that.
Dublin is a Viking city. In fact, the city is home to the new VikingFest, scheduled for March 30th – April 2nd. The festival will be held at Wood Quay, site of Dubinia, the city’s Viking museum. And with eerie timing, archaeologists working at the site of a new hotel in the nearby Coombe neighbourhood just found a trove of Viking artefacts. Three troves, really. They discovered layers of artefacts: a top layer of items dating to the 17th and 19th century, a middle layer with things from 13th and 14th centuries and a bottom layer 2.5 meters below ground offering up treasures from the 10th to 12th centuries. The archaeologists have uncovered nine structures in four distinct plots so far, mostly mud and wattle construction, believed to date to the 1100s. Some were houses and others sheltered livestock.