DISCOVERY OF 1,000-YEAR-OLD VIKING SITE IN CANADA COULD REWRITE HISTORY
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
The possible discovery of a 1,000-year-old Viking site on a Canadian island could rewrite the story of the exploration of North America by Europeans before Christopher Columbus.
Where: Point Rosee, Newfoundland What: the stones appear to be the foundations of a furnace
The uncovering of stone used in ironworking on Newfoundland, hundreds of miles south from the only known Viking site in North America, suggests the Vikings may have travelled much further into the continent than previously thought.
A group of archaeologists has been excavating the newly found site at the Point Rosee, a narrow, windswept peninsula on the most western point of the island.
The only known Viking site to date in North America is located on the northern tip of the
Canadian island of Newfoundland
To date, the only confirmed Viking site on the American continent is L’Anse aux Meadows, a 1,000-year-old way station found in 1960 on the northern tip of Newfoundland.
That settlement was abandoned after just a few years of being inhabited and archaeologists have spent the last fifty years searching for any other signs of Viking expeditions to the other side of the Atlantic.
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I put the title of the article in a search and found a list of several other publications which ran the same story. Here's one from the Independent which includes more pictures, etc.:
Discovery of 1,000-year-old Viking site in Canada could rewrite history
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/discovery-vikings-newfoundland-canada-history-norse-point-rosee-l-anse-aux-meadows-a6965126.html
