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Stephanie Pappas

'Vulva stone' and coin jewelry among remarkable treasures discovered at Viking burial site in Norway

A collage of 3 photos including a coin, brooch and group of beads found at the viking burial site.

Three Viking graves excavated in Norway contain coins from distant lands and an oddly symbolic stone carved to look like female genitalia.

The graves, all of which seemed to belong to women, were found on the west coast of Norway by metal detectorists . They date back to the early 800s A.D., during the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066), head archaeologist Søren Diinhoff of the University Museum of Bergen told sciencenorway.no.

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