When a piece of land near Borgund church on the West coast of Norway was to be cleared in 1953, a lot of debris was uncovered.
Luckily, some recognised the ‘debris’ for what it really was: objects from the Norwegian Middle Ages.
The following summer, an excavation was undertaken. Archaeologists retrieved many, many items from the ground. Most of them were taken into storage.
Then not much else happened.
Now, nearly 70 years later, researchers have started the exhaustive work of analysing the 45,000 items in storage in order to gain insight into a thousand-year-old Norwegian town we know surprisingly little about.
