Susan Braovac is a conservator at the University of Oslo, working on the Alum Research Project to preserve artifacts from the Oseberg Find, one of Norway’ s most celebrated Viking ship discoveries. Uncovered in 1903 by a local farmer whilst digging in a large Viking Age burial mound on his property near Tønsberg, Norway, the burial mound turned out to be ship grave. T oday, the restored ship and many of the related artifacts are housed in th

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