{"id":17371,"date":"2011-11-11T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=17371"},"modified":"2011-11-11T04:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T10:24:37","slug":"found-ardnamurchan-viking-boat-burial-fully-intact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/found-ardnamurchan-viking-boat-burial-fully-intact\/","title":{"rendered":"Found: Ardnamurchan Viking Boat Burial, Fully Intact & Shipwreck of Kublai Khan’s Lost Feet, Possibly"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, the viking<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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The term “fully-intact”, used to describe the find, means the remains of the body along with objects buried with it and evidence of the boat used were found and recovered.<\/p>\n

The Ardnamurchan Viking was found buried with an axe, a sword with a decorated hilt, a spear, a shield boss and a bronze ring pin.<\/a><\/p>\n

About 200 rivets – the remains of the boat he was laid in – were also found.<\/p>\n

Previously, boat burials in such a condition have been excavated at sites on Orkney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, the shipwreck<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\"\"In Japanese legend they are known as The Kamikaze — the divine winds — a reference to two mighty typhoons placed providentially seven years apart which, in the 13th century, destroyed two separate Mongol invasion fleets so large they were not eclipsed until the D-Day landings of World War II.<\/p>\n

Marine archaeologists now say they have uncovered the remains of a ship from the second fleet in 1281<\/a> — believed to have comprised 4,400 vessels — a meter below the seabed, in 25 meters of water off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via guardian<\/a>, bbcnews<\/a>, cnn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, the viking: The term “fully-intact”, used to describe the find, means the remains of the body along with objects buried with it and evidence of the boat used were found and recovered. The Ardnamurchan Viking was found buried with an axe, a sword with a decorated hilt, a spear, a shield boss and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,29,9],"tags":[2778,4663,198,4633,31,346,4665,3886,4664,951],"class_list":["post-17371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-in-japan","category-people-who-died","category-science","tag-archaeologists","tag-ardnamurchan-viking","tag-british","tag-buried","tag-culture","tag-found","tag-old-warriors","tag-shipwreck","tag-viking","tag-vikings-rock-your-face"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17374,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17371\/revisions\/17374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}