Views of surviving timbers from longest Viking warship ever found displayed in the UK for the first time. The timbers have been painstakingly fitted together like a huge jigsaw and placed inside an actual size steel cradle . The reconstruction work is by members National Museum of Denmark who have come over to the Museum especially. The 37 metre long ship will form the centrepiece of the British Museum's BP exhibition, Vikings: life and legend. The ship, known as Roskilde 6, was excavated from the banks of Roskilde fjord in Denmark during the course of work undertaken to develop the Roski
Views of surviving timbers from longest Viking warship ever found displayed in the UK for the first time. The timbers have been painstakingly fitted together like a huge jigsaw and placed inside an actual size steel cradle . The reconstruction work is by members National Museum of Denmark who have come over to the Museum especially. The 37 metre long ship will form the centrepiece of the British Museum's BP exhibition, Vikings: life and legend. The ship, known as Roskilde 6, was excavated from the banks of Roskilde fjord in Denmark during the course of work undertaken to develop the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum in 1997. Since the excavation, the timbers have been painstakingly conserved and analysed by the National Museum of Denmark. The surviving timbers – approximately 20% of the original ship - have now been re-assembled for display in a specially made stainless steel frame that reconstructs the full size and shape of the original ship. The construction of the ship has been dated to around AD 1025, the high point of the Viking Age when England, Denmark, Norway and possibly parts of Sweden were united under the rule of Cnut the Great. The size of the ship and the amount of resources required to build it suggest that it was almost certainly a royal warship, possibly connected with the wars fought by Cnut to assert his authority over this short-lived North Sea Empire. Due to its scale and fragility it would not have been possible to display this ship at the British Museum without the new facilities of the Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery. The exhibition, developed in cooperation with the National Museum of Denmark and the Berlin State Museum, is the first major exhibition in England on this subject for over 30 years, and presents a number of new archaeological discoveries and objects never before seen in the UK alongside important Viking Age artefacts from the British Museum’s own collection and elsewhere in Britain and Ireland. The BP exhibition,
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