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The Oseberg ship burial include four sleds or sleighs, all decorated with wooden carving. When they were found, traces of red, reddish brown, black,…
A simple wooden chest in Vikingskipshuset. This chest would originally have held a sailor's possessions as well as being their seat while rowing. This…
A wooden bucket and a wooden trough from the Oseberg ship burial.
A bucket that contained blueberries, and an oak lid with carving round the edge and a valknut design in the middle.
A wooden ladle and a carved wooden handle from the Oseberg ship burial.
Wooden cups, a wooden trough, and a wooden bowl, all from the Oseberg ship burial.
Cooking utensils from the Oseberg ship burial. These include an iron cauldron with tripod, pot stirrers, a frying pan, a knife and a bowl.
A large wooden baking trough that had traces of rye flour in it when it was found.
A possible ale bowl made of beech.
An oak barrel with hoops of ash.
A pine bucket with an iron handle. It was originally bound with hoops of beech wood. The bucket has a runic inscription that says 'Sigrid owns'.
Two plain axes for general work.
The sled poles found in the Oseberg ship were not found with the sleds, and thus probably do not belong directly to any of the sleds. They are highly…
Bridle with gilt bronze plaques as decoration.
These ship nails were found in the Borre grave mound.
A Frankish glass goblet from the Borre mound burial. It is thought that the goblet must have been at least 100 years old when deposited in the Borre…
A mount for a knife scabbard from the Borre burial mound.
Part of the shaft from a sled, decorated with metalwork and carved.
Gilt bronze strap mounts from the Gokstad burial.
Although not as showy now, as they would have been in the Viking Age, these peacock feathers are evidence of the wide international network of…
