1,000-year-old Viking burial boat discovered

A VIKING boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlands.

The 5m-long grave held the remains of a high-status Viking, buried in a ship with around 200 metal rivets, alongside an axe, sword and spear.

The area, on the west coast’s remote Ardnamurchan peninsula, is the first intact boat burial site to be uncovered on British mainland and is thought to be 1,000 years old.