"We have only excavated six percent of the burial ground," says Petra Nordin, Project Leader, hinting at the site's enormous potential for further discoveries.
"When we did the preliminary excavation in May 2017 we found 5 graves, on layers of fire waste and bone fragments from humans and dogs. Then we realised that there was a large Viking burial ground that we had to focus on."
"The problem is that the land has been ploughed and levelled to create pastures, so all the occupation levels, former above ground remains and burials have been ploughed to pieces," Nordin explains.
The burial ground, situated on a flat ridge, is located between two critical transport routes from the Viking Age. The Tväååker river... links the area to ancient times.
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