Monday, September 10, 2007

It's Always in the Last Place You Look

Where's the last place you'd look for an ancient Viking warship? If you said "under a pub parking lot in England," you'd be right:

A 1,000-year-old Viking longship is thought to have been discovered under a pub car park on Merseyside.

The vessel is believed to lie beneath 6ft to 10ft (2m to 3m) of clay by the Railway Inn in Meols, Wirral, where Vikings are known to have settled.
It was discovered using ground penetrating radar, which makes me wonder if the 21st Century version of lonely old guys scouring the beaches with medal detectors will be similarly skeevy guys wandering around parking lots looking for sunken treasure.

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