Hjortspring boat
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The Hjortspring boat is a vessel designed as a large canoe, from the Scandinavian Pre-Roman Iron Age. The boat has been carbon dated to between 381 and 161 BC. The hull and remains were rediscovered a
The reconstructed remains of the Hjortspring boat at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen
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Rock carvings of boats.
Reconstruction of the Hjortspring boat.
Nordic Bronze Age
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The Nordic Bronze Age is a period of Scandinavian prehistory from c. 2000/1750–500 BC.
Hjortspring boat
…southern Denmark. The boat is the oldest find of a wooden plank ship in Scandinavia and it closely resembles the thousands of petroglyph images of Nordic Bronze Age ships found throughout Scandinavia. The vessel is a planked wooden boat of more than 19 metres (62 feet) length overall, 13.6 metres (45 feet) long…
Model of a Bronze Age house, National Museum of Denmark
Kivik 'King's Grave', Sweden, c. 1400 BC
Skrydstrup Woman, preserved textiles in oak coffin, Denmark, c. 1300 BC
Håga burial mound, Sweden, c. 1000 BC