![]() ![]() The method of the discovery is noteworthy, too. New study shows Viking women accompanied men on voyages to colonize far-flung lands.Norsemen transformed international culture, manufacturing, tech and trade during Viking Era.Did a Native American travel with the Vikings and arrive in Iceland centuries before Columbus set sail?.The Point Rosee Viking site is the southernmost and westernmost location where evidence of ironworking has been discovered in the Americas before Columbus arrived. Scholars do not believe natives of this area in the 11th century were working with iron, though there was metalworking in the New World before Europeans arrived. ![]() The smith burns and dries the ore in the fire so it doesn’t explode in the forge.Ī blackened rock said to be the hearth. ![]() The hearth itself is just a boulder with a depression in front of it, surrounded by smaller rocks.īut in the hearth’s shallow pit archaeologists found 28 pounds of slag-a byproduct of iron roasting, the step in the ironworking process before smelting and forging. The hearth at Point Rosee is surrounded by the remnants of a rectangular turf wall, says the National Geographic article announcing the find. The first, at L’Anse aux Meadows, also in Newfoundland but hundreds of miles north of Point Rosee, was discovered in 1960. This site, at Point Rosee, is the second where there is strong evidence of Viking settlements in the New World. Experts are “cautiously optimistic” that a hearth where people worked iron about 1,000 years ago in Newfoundland, Northeast Canada, was the site of a Viking settlement, says National Geographic. ![]()
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