While they could not definitively confirm the house dated to the Viking Age — which spanned from 800 to 1050 A.D. — there were several clues that pointed to this being the case. For example ...

The remnants of a large late-Viking-age hall were recently uncovered by a volunteer archaeology group at a farm in Silloth, Cumbria. The load-bearing timber found there was carbon dated to ...

What were Viking villages like? The Vikings and their families mostly lived in small villages that were near the coast. Despite their reputation as brave warriors and terrifying raiders ...

It illustrates that a small island in the middle of one of the main Viking trading routes acted as a "clearing house" for deals in goods and wealth. The items were buried for safekeeping ...