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The archaeology of glaciers and ice patches. Our work has been covered by National Geographic, Science, CNN, BBC, der Spiegel et al. @Glacialarchaeo1 tweeting

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Secrets Of The Ice

8 months

Would you believe it!❤ We have just found an incredibly well preserved arrow with a shell arrowhead. It looks like it was lost last year, but the arrow is around 3300 years old, from the Early Bronze Age!😮 It doesn't get much better than this😍

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

This is why we ❤️ glacial archaeology! See how happy we are when we get to hold an arrow, which has been lost in the ice for 1500 years

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Secrets Of The Ice

3 years

BREAKING NEWS! We have just made an incredible discovery at the Digervarden ice patch, Norway. We have found the best-preserved prehistoric pair of skis in the world! 1300 years old and both have the bindings preserved. The second of the two skis has just come out of the ice❤️

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

Holy smoke! 😮 A baby mammoth has just been discovered by a Yukon gold miner😍 It is more than 30000 years old! Preserved by permafrost ice❄️ Press release here:

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

We found this beautiful arrow only two meters from the melting ice. It is incredibly well preserved - the sinew at the front is intact, the wooden birch shaft is in one piece and there are even three fletches.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

Someone lost their mitten while crossing the Lendbreen ice in the Viking Age. The mitten disappeared into the snow and ice in the pass. The owner probably thought that it was gone forever, but not so🙂 We found the mitten melting out of the retreating ice patch 1100 years later.

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1 year

This strange artifact melted out of the ice in the Lendbreen pass. We scratched our heads to try to figure out what it had been used for but we couldn't come up with a good answer. The object was exhibited at the local museum. A visiting elderly woman solved the mystery for us.

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

One of the arrows was still stuck in the ice and we had to melt it out carefully, using lukewarm water. The preservation of this 1500-year-old arrow is just awesome! Arrowhead, sinew, shaft, fletching – it’s all there.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

A wooden box, with the lid still on, is one of the most fantastic finds we have discovered from the melting ice😍 We wondered how old it was and what kind of wood had been used to make it. Not least did we wonder what was inside.

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Secrets Of The Ice

3 years

We got a report that an arrow had been spotted near a glacier in central Jotunheimen, Norway. Our team rushed out, collected the arrow and checked the find spot for more finds. The completely preserved wooden arrowshaft dates to the Stone Age, probably 4-5000 years ago😮

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

Lendbreen, August 4th 2011. We discovered a large piece of textile in a hollow in the scree, close to the melting ice.

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

This is a find we have been hoping and wishing for ❤️ It is a snowshoe for horses, found lying on the ice at nearly 2000 m. Based on the other finds here, it is probably from the Viking Age or the Medieval Period. The preservation is just mindblowing ❤️ #glacialarchaeology

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

Julian is 🙂and for a good reason, He is holding a perfectly preserved 1400-year-old arrow in his hands, which we recovered close to the melting ice. The arrow looks like it was lost yesterday

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

A few years ago, we had a quiet day at the office when this photo suddenly ticked in😮 A reindeer hunter had stumbled upon an incredible archaeological find: A Viking sword. An unbelievable discovery😍 We rushed to the scene...

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

Our team members were setting up the gas cooker to prepare a hot meal before the long hike down. And there it was: A Viking Age arrowhead stuck in the ice at 2160 m. The thought of humans hunting at this altitude a thousand years ago is just mind-blowing😮

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Secrets Of The Ice

8 months

The ice released one final secret for us this year - an arrow with the quartzite arrowhead still in place! The fibers fastening the arrowhead are intact, and black pitch still covers the arrowhead. The complete arrowshaft is there as well, in three pieces.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

We were stunned when the result came back: The bit belonged to the 11th century AD - it was 1000 years old😮 Now how is that for long-lived material culture and strong local traditions?

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Secrets Of The Ice

9 months

We have exciting news about the arrow that we found at Lauvhøe recently and posted here last week. Since it was broken at both ends, it was hard to date and we suggested that it might date to the Iron Age. Well, we were wrong!🙂

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

VIKINGS! We found an arrow from the Early Viking Age. The iron arrowhead and the complete shaft are there😍 Great find!

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Secrets Of The Ice

11 months

When we find pieces of textile lying on the ice in the Lendbreen pass, they are dirty and often don't look like much. But once we get them to the lab, something amazing can happen🙂

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

Just remembered that we have a video of when we found the Viking Age mitten. Great moment and some very happy archaeologists🙂

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

What is melting out now is just plain unbelievable😲 This is a small wooden box with a lid. There is a hole at one end, probably for attaching it to something (a belt?). Length 30 cm. Likely to be Viking Age or Medieval❤️ Oh, and there is something inside...

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

Oh, look at this little beauty😍 We have never found an arrowhead like this before. It has three blades! The shape of the tang tells us that the last person who touched it was a Viking❤

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

Now, this is what we call an arrowhead! It is 18 cm long and 2 cm wide, weighing in at 32 g❤️ A missed shot around 1500 years ago became an archaeological bullseye🙂 Discovered at 2100 m on our Trollstein site in the Jotunheimen Mountains, Norway.

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Secrets Of The Ice

9 months

We just made an incredibly discovery on the south side of the Lendbreen pass: An iron horse bit, with parts of the leather bridle preserved!❤️ It could well be from the Viking Age, when traffic through the pass was at its peak. But let's see what the radiocarbon date says.

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Secrets Of The Ice

11 months

Look at this great little find of a wooden doll, preserved by permafrost ice in Nunalleq, Alaska😍 Rick Knecht, director of the excavations, tells us: "We are working to save the Nunalleq Site, a 15-17th century Yup'ik Eskimo settlement, from falling into the sea."

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

We have found a couple of more bits in the Lendbreen pass since then, like the one below. They are a testimony to livestock travelling through the high altitude Lendbreen pass a long time ago.

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Secrets Of The Ice

11 months

This piece of Viking Age cloth from the Lendbreen pass has some of the original blue colour preserved. And even better: One of the edges has preserved knotted tassels. This is a very rare detail on Viking Age textile, and the only example from our melting mountain ice.

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Secrets Of The Ice

3 years

Oh, the preservation❤ Arrow with a special type of socketed arrowhead, common around AD 600. Doesn't look 1400 years old, does it? The ice can be a time machine, bringing artefacts from the past to our times in a nearly unchanged state. A strange feeling for an archaeologist🙂

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Secrets Of The Ice

4 years

This 1500-year-old arrow was still stuck in the ice at 2000 m when we found it. We melted it out using lukewarm water. Look at the preservation: the shaft and the sinew are perfectly preserved, and the iron arrowhead is just slightly rusted. The ice really is a time machine ❤️

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Secrets Of The Ice

11 months

The preservation on this piece of Viking Age textile from the Lendbreen pass is just incredible. The textile now has a dark blue colour. We can see a seam and an edge, both sown with a light brown thread.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

She had used such objects on a local farm in the 1930s!😮 She told us that it is a bit for young animals, mainly goat kids and lambs, to stop them from getting milk from their mothers.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

When the results came back, the find became even more interesting. The box is made of pine wood, radiocarbon-dated to AD 1475-1635, so it is 400-500 years old. The content turned out to be beeswax!😮 What we are seeing inside the box is very likely the remains of a beeswax candle

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Secrets Of The Ice

9 months

After a gentle removal of the glacial silt, the hafting area for the arrowhead appeared! The arrowhead is likely to have been a pressure-flaked stone projectile, meaning that the arrow is around 4000 years old😍

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

A radiocarbon date from the shaft tells ut that the arrow is around 1200 years old, from the Early Viking Age. We only have two arrows with forked arrowheads from the ice. A great find❤️

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

A long time ago, a hunter butchered a reindeer at the Trollstein ice patch. When the job was done, the knife was left behind. Was it lost in the snow? Many centuries later, we found it close to the retreating ice. A sorry loss for the hunter, but a great gift to archaeology!❤️

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Secrets Of The Ice

4 years

A miniature knife from the Viking Age - one of our favorite finds from the lost mountain pass at Lendbreen. The handle is birchwood and the blade is iron, The preservation is stunning - frozen in time for a thousand years ❤️ #glacialarchaeology #ClimateChange

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

Remember the repaired medieval arrow we found melting out of the ice last autumn? There was quite a bit of discussion whether the repair was done using the original broken-off piece of the nock, or if the repair piece was custom-made.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

"Quick, get a flashlight!" One of our crew members had found the back end of an arrow shaft sticking out of the scree. We directed the beam down between the stones, and there it was: A beautiful Viking Age arrowhead at the end of the arrow shaft❤️

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1 year

Would you believe it?😮 We just received this photo of a similar bit like the one we just published. It was found in between the timbers in an old farmhouse near the Lendbreen pass. Traditions are strong in this area❤️ Photo: Sveinung Mosnes

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

This strange artifact melted out of the ice in the Lendbreen pass. We scratched our heads to try to figure out what it had been used for but we couldn't come up with a good answer. The object was exhibited at the local museum. A visiting elderly woman solved the mystery for us.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

Textiles are very rare finds on our ice sites but not at the lost mountain pass at Lendbreen, Here there are an incredible hundred finds of textile, including a 1700-year old tunic and a Viking Age mitten. Most finds, however, are cut-off pieces of textile.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

The carved furrows on each end originally had string attached, which was used for fastening behind the ears, so the bit wouldn't come loose. Usually, such bits were made in juniper, she said, as this is a very tough wood.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

We found this mysterious and beautiful object near the melting ice in the Lendbreen pass. It is made in birch and is finely ornamented. The radiocarbon date says that it is around 1200 years old, from the beginning of the Viking Age.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

A beautiful Viking Age arrowhead from our Lendbreen site here in Norway❤️ When the ice melt reaches iron artefacts, they get heated up by the rays of the sun. This makes them sink back into the ice. We found this one before it was re-covered by meltwater slush🙂

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

We found five arrows at the Sandgrovskardet site, so a good haul. Three of the arrows have the iron arrowheads preserved. The one in the picture is a rare type, dated to c. AD 550-600. The arrow shaft is also preserved (right). First find of this type of arrowhead at the ice.

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Secrets Of The Ice

3 years

This horse snowshoe is a such a great find😍 We discovered it on the ice surface in the Lendbreen pass. Check out the preservation!❤ Looks like it was lost yesterday, but the radiocarbon date (just in) begs to differ: It was lost in the 3rd century AD!🙂

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Secrets Of The Ice

11 months

When the archaeological conservator at @Kulturhistorisk has worked wonders a very nice diamond twill pattern emerges😍 The radiocarbon date reveals that our piece of textile is from the 9th century AD - the Early Viking Age🙂

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1 year

Prior to radiocarbon dating, the wood species on our piece was also determined to be juniper - the only example of the use of juniper in our more than 200 radiocarbon dated samples! Now we only needed to know how old it was. The sample travelled to Beta Analytic in Florida.

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Secrets Of The Ice

8 months

Saturday, a local mountain hiker found an arrow at the edge of the ice on one of our sites. He did everything right - took GPS coordinates, left the arrow behind and contacted us. Well done!

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9 months

This is the first Stone Age find from this site. Finds from our fieldwork in 2017 and before were no earlier than the Iron Age. We are melting back in time...😮

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

As a warm-up to the start of fieldwork, we have exciting news about the bow that was found at Lendbreen last year. The radiocarbon date is back: The bow is 4000 years old, from the Late Neolithic!😍 This makes it the earliest known bow from Norway.

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

...and our fieldwork has started❤️ One of the first finds coming out of the ice this year was this incredibly well preserved c. 1500-year-old arrow. We have heavy melting of old ice due to the July heatwave. We expect a lot of exciting archaeological finds in the coming weeks😃

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Secrets Of The Ice

11 months

Our bit of textile may once have been a part of a beautiful Viking Age garment, When the garment was worn out, the fabric was cut into pieces and reused. Here we can see the stiches along the edge, using a brown-coloured thread. (Museum photos: Kirsten Helgeland/ @Kulturhistorisk

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

Join us as we melt out an Iron Age arrow still stuck in the ice. We were in for a big surprise ❤️

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

The candle box was found on the ice of the Lendbreen ice patch, where an ancient trail had crossed the ice. You can read more about the lost mountain pass at Lendbreen here:

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The Hunt for the Lost Mountain Pass - Secrets of the Ice

When the fog lifted, we saw that the ground around us was littered with artifacts. We had found a lost mountain pass. the discovery of a lifetime.

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Secrets Of The Ice

9 months

Help!🙂 We have just found this leather object on the south side of the Lendbreen pass. Probably Late Iron Age or Medieval. Any ideas what it could have been used for?

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

The front of the arrow with the iron arrowhead, and the remains of tar and sinew. Wonderful!😍

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

Unbelievable preservation. 18000 years old, from the Siberian permafrost 😍

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5 years

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

In August 2019, we got a heads-up about the site where Reidar Marstein found the Viking Age arrow. The ice patches at Reidar's site were melting a lot. A hiker had found a second arrow on the site – and what an arrow! The preservation of this 1500-year-old arrow is stunning❤️

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1 year

A unique find: A forked iron arrowhead, mounted on a short foreshaft. So far, we have only found two forked arrowheads from the ice, and foreshafts are also very rare. The combination of these two elements makes this a special find. The arrow is dated to the Early Viking Age.

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1 year

Our 500-year old Good Boy from the Lendbreen pass is now resting in his display case in the new exhibition at the Norwegian Mountain Center in Lom. We found him on the ice in 2019, with his collar and leash. The bones tell us that it is an adult male dog, about 50 cm tall.

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1 year

Such candle boxes are known from recent times here in Norway. They were used for transporting candles between the main farms and the summer farms. Now we know that such candle boxes were also used way back in time.

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

Oh, look at the preservation of this 1400-year-old arrow❤️ Frozen in time... From the same site as the Stone Age arrow posted two days ago. As is normally the case on our sites, we have artifacts from different time periods melting out at the same time #glacialarchaeology

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

The fletching of a c. 1500-year-old arrow ❤️ Melted out at 2000 meters in the Jotunheimen Mountains. This will give us the possibility of identifying the bird species, using ancient DNA 🙂 #glacialarchaeology

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Secrets Of The Ice

3 years

In the seven years since, we have monitored the ice patch, hoping and praying for the second ski of the pair to melt out. Now it has happened! The new ski is even better preserved than the first one! It is an unbelievable find❤️

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1 year

This back part of an arrow shaft holds the record for the oldest find from the ice in Northern Europe. It is radiocarbon-dated to be 6100 years old❤️ It is made from Viburnum wood, just as several of the arrows in Ötzi's quiver. Our arrow is 800 years older than Ötzi's though🙂

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Secrets Of The Ice

3 years

We found this special and heavy arrowhead near the melting ice. The wooden arrow shaft still lay beside it. Only one of its kind from the ice, but there are two similar arrowheads from 6th century AD burials in the lowlands. Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of this one😮

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

The back end of the arrow. The shaft is lightly tapered towards the end, and the nock is thickened. There are remains of the tar which would have glued the fletching to the shaft. Imprints of the thread securing the fletching is visible. The wood is likely to be pine.

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8 months

Check out this 900-year-old arrow just lying there on the surface of the ice❤️ After collecting the Iron Age arrow in yesterday's post, we hiked over to the ice patch where we recently discovered the arrows with shell and stone arrowheads.

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1 year

Wow, an incredible find from the ice in the Italian Alps😍 The remains of at least 15 Ibex (skulls, bones and even fur!) have melted out of the ice on the summit of Mount Lodner, at 3200 m. The first radiocarbon date is back and it is 7000 years old😮

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5 years

What a beauty!❤️❤️ A Viking arrow was lost in the snow. The shaft and sinew disappeared, but the iron arrowhead remained. Occasionally, surface melt would reach it, but when heated by the rays of the sun, it would melt further down into the ice. There it stayed, until... today❤️

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1 year

We have news about the 4000-year old bow which was found at Lendbreen. Remember that we were unsure which wood species had been used to make it? Well, that is now sorted out with specialist help. (Photo: Thomas Karlberg Kjær)

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5 years

We love bone arrowheads, especially when they are still attached to their shaft❤️ Two sides of the same bone arrowhead, which is probably between 1700 and 2000 years old.

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1 year

The news was quickly passed on to the textile expert at the museum. A few hours later she rang back with the stunning news: "We have folded it out - it is a complete Iron Age tunic!"

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2 years

We discovered the arrow between stones in the scree. It was found near the lower edge of the ice but was probably lost in the snow further up the slope. When it later melted out, it was transported downslope by meltwater, and ended up on the ground where we found it.

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1 year

A 1300-year-old arrow, found at the Langfonne ice patch in the Jotunheimen Mountains, Norway. Just one of the thousands of artefacts that have melted out of the glacial ice globally in the last years due to climate change.

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4 years

"You call that an arrowhead? THIS is an arrowhead!" 🙂 1500-year-old iron arrowhead recovered on one of our sites. Found close to the melting ice at 2050 m, together with the wooden shaft. It is 18 cm long and 2 cm wide, weighing in at 32 g #glacialarchaeology

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5 years

One of our favorite finds: a toy arrow from c. AD 600 ❤️ The child who lost it in the snow probably thought the arrow was gone forever, but the ice preserved it for 1400 years ❤️ #glacialarchaeology

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1 year

Julian holds a Stone Age arrow with a quartzite arrowhead, found at the Langfonne Ice Patch. The arrow is 4000 years old and there are even older arrows from the same site (6000 years!). But how old can the finds from the glacial ice actually get? (Photo: Live Andrea Sulheim)

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6 years

We sometimes find wooden spades on our ice sites. They are radiocarbon-dated to c. AD 500. What were they used for at this high altitude? Digging holes in the snow to store reindeer meat during the hunt? 🤔 #glacialarchaeology

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2 years

Yes, we have our first find, and it's a very interesting one as well!😍 It is a Medieval arrow (800-900 years old) with the front end broken off. The interesting part is at the other end though🙂 #glacialarchaeology #climatechange

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1 year

The fletching in the picture is about 1500 years old and contains four feathers. They were found together with a completely preserved arrow near the ice in Innlandet County, Norway❤ Preserved fletchings from ancient arrows are very rare indeed 🙂

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5 years

We often see standing stones near the ice patches. The reindeer would avoid these silhouettes, mistaking them for humans. This would lead the reindeer to the real hunters, who were in hiding. This standing stone has been on guard duty for a long time, prob. since the Viking Age.

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

The arrow has likely been exposed a few times after it was lost in the snow, as the fletching is gone and the sinew and tar is not perfectly preserved. Still, the preservation is pretty awesome😍

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2 years

In 2019, we found the skeleton of a dog with collar and leash in the Lendbreen pass. The dog is radiocarbon-dated to the 16th century AD. The bones tell us that it is an adult male, about 50 cm tall, with wear marks starting to show on the bones. (Photo: Trond Andersen, KHM)

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Secrets Of The Ice

4 years

YIPPEE! We have made our first find at the ice patch, and what a find it is: A 26 cm long bone arrowhead. It is probably 2000-3000 years old 😍

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

We have opened the box, and this is what's inside! It contains a wooden stick and small bits of resin-filled wood. The content makes it likely that it is indeed a tinderbox. In that case, we are missing the fire-steel and flint, but they could be hiding beneath the wood.

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Secrets Of The Ice

11 months

Preserved fletchings on ancient arrows are exceedingly rare. Not up at the Innlandet ice though: We have found 22 arrows with the fletching preserved to various degrees, including about 40 fletches

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Secrets Of The Ice

3 years

Back in 2014, the Secrets of the Ice program found an exceptional pre-Viking ski, 1300 years old, at the Digervarden Ice patch. The ski was complete, including the binding – one of only two skis from prehistory in this condition.

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1 year

These straps and bits of wood were found a while back near the edge of a melting ice patch in Innlandet County, Norway. They are the remains of a leather net with a frame of lime wood. (Photo: Jostein Bergstøl/Museum of Cultural History)

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

Astounding, the first such find from the ice: The remains of a small dog, including the collar and leash. It is unlikely to be recent as the collar is made of twisted wooden fibres. Probably medieval or older based on the other finds here. Good dog 🙂 #glacialarchaeology

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Secrets Of The Ice

2 years

With the report of the awesome Iron Age arrow from our site, we needed to get moving quick. When we got to the site, we immediately discovered a Stone Age arrow lying in a meltwater pond in front of one of the ice patches.

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Secrets Of The Ice

1 year

We ordered a priority radiocarbon date of a sample of the large piece of textile from Lendbreen. Within days the date came back: AD 300. Oh dear, it was 1700 years old😮

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The Iron Age tunic from Lendbreen is the oldest preserved garment in Norway. Only a handful of such tunics are preserved north of the border to the Roman empire. Our tunic was published in the @AntiquityJ in 2013: (Photo: Museum of Cultural History)

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Out of the Norwegian glaciers: Lendbreen—a tunic from the early first millennium AD | Antiquity |...

Out of the Norwegian glaciers: Lendbreen—a tunic from the early first millennium AD - Volume 87 Issue 337

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Secrets Of The Ice

8 months

The arrow was found while checking the edge of the ice at a known site in the northeast Jotunheimen Mountains. This is a typical monitoring job we do at the end of the field season. Picture shows the other end of the arrow with the nock

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Secrets Of The Ice

5 years

When you find ancient horse dung covering the ice surface of your site, after another meter of ice has melted away 😳 Who were the many humans and animals that crossed the ice here long ago, and where were they going? Where are we heading? #climatechange

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1 year

On closer inspection, a diamond twill pattern emerged. Little did we know at the time how incredible this find really was. Maybe just as well, or our hands would have been trembling when we lifted the find and packed it for transport...

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1 year

The first known arrows from the ice in Innlandet County, Norway melted out during very warm summers in the 1930s. Here are some examples of early finds.

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