BBC Focus Magazine

[M Paul Lloyd]

Ardnamurchan Viking boat burial discovery 'a first'
You know, if you had asked me beforehand I would have sworn we already had one??

The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been uncovered in the north-west Highlands, archaeologists have said.
The site, at Ardnamurchan, is thought to be more than 1,000 years old.
Artefacts buried alongside the Viking in his boat suggest he was a high-ranking warrior.
Archaeologist Dr Hannah Cobb said the "artefacts and preservation make this one of the most important Norse graves ever excavated in Britain".
Dr Cobb, from the University of Manchester, a co-director of the project, said: "This is a very exciting find."

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[Healerman]

We have Saxon boat burials on record, with Sutton Hoo being the well famous one, but no, this is the first Viking type recorded in the UK...as far as I know, anyway.

[M Paul Lloyd]

Ah yes of course Saxon... not quite the same thing, although I suspect they might well have considered themselves a bit 'Viking' especially after a few draughts of Mead??