Dig at Waterford Viking site sees archaeologists find a host of artefacts

Archaeologists find a range of artefacts from a belt strap to a silver coin that originated in Iraq and share plans to re-create the historic site 

Neil Jackman and his team at the Woodstown Viking site in Waterford.

To get to the Woodstown Viking site in Waterford, you have to drive down a very strange road indeed. Despite being surrounded by trees and fields, the two-lane road is wide, with footpaths on either side. Tall grasses and weeds spring from the cracks in the footpath and just as you trundle around a bend the road just…stops.

You are confronted with a large, high wall and a left turn into a field – although the recent convoy of jeeps and trucks means that the grass is at least well flattened.