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Middelharnis last week found parts of a Viking ship. It is a so-called Norwegian drakkar or a Viking long ship. A spokesperson of the Foundation for the Conservation shipyard Middelharnis Tuesday. The wreckage were 2.5 meters deep in the harbor bottom

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The Scandinavian pine pieces dating from 800 AD and upwards came during excavation work for the construction of the historical slope of the Menheerse Yard in Middlesbrough.

Martijn Vermeer, restorer of wooden ships and connoisseur of the Vikings in the Low Countries, it takes a special find. “There were so far only two such finds in the Netherlands.” The place of the current Middelharnis he said, was a good place for the Vikings to pull from the North Sea and further inland towards Germany

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