Archaeologists find huge Viking textile production site in Denmark

Archaeologists have discovered a huge Viking Age textile production site in Denmark that dates back more than 1,000 years and underlines the sophistication of Viking society.

Experts from the Moesgaard Museum said this week that the sprawling 100,000-square-meter site features an area for processing flax as well as more than 80 pit houses —semi-buried huts that were used as workshops and dwellings in Viking times.

It’s located in Søften, 10 kilometers north of Denmark’s second-largest city, Aarhus, on the Jutland peninsula. The site dates back to the late Iron Age and early Viking Age, sometime between A.D. 600 and 950.

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