An excavation in Oslo's former harbor has yielded the remains of a rare iron gauntlet, likely lost by a medieval knight in the 14th century. Archaeologists with the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) discovered the piece of armor while metal detecting as part of their investigation of the old harbor area.
Oslo was founded as a medieval city and harbor around 1050. But in 1624, after a fire ravaged the city, the Norwegian king Christian IV moved Oslo across the bay. In the centuries since, development of the old harbor, including the building of piers and warehouses, steadily expanded outward into the bay as the ocean retreated.
