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Tom Metcalfe

50 Viking Age burials discovered in Denmark, including a woman in a rare 'Viking wagon'

A fairly complete skeleton in a dirt grave.

An extraordinary Viking burial ground with the almost-complete skeletons of roughly 50 people has been unearthed in Denmark during preparations to lay electrical cables.

The discoveries were made near the village of Åsum on the island of Funen over the past six months by archaeologists from Museum Odense, according to a statement.

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