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The Lost Viking Settlement

Lars Pilø

Posted on June 9, 2021

Prehistoric Arrow Bonanza at Langfonne

Lars Pilø

Posted on November 25, 2020

The Hunt for the Lost Mountain Pass

Lars Pilø

Posted on April 16, 2020

The Iceman from British Columbia

Lars Pilø

Posted on January 8, 2020

Reidar Marstein – Our Local Hero of Glacier Archaeology

Lars Pilø

Posted on November 14, 2019

Buried in Ice – The Franklin Expedition Cemetery

Lars Pilø

Posted on October 28, 2019

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Today we published a major new scientific study on

Today we published a major new scientific study on the Langfonne ice patch. This site has a record-breaking number of arrow finds, like this AD 700 arrow. They tell a fascinating story. More on our website https://secretsoftheice.com

CELEBRITY ALERT! We had a visit from Tormund Giant

CELEBRITY ALERT! We had a visit from Tormund Giantsbane from Game of Thrones, aka Kristofer Hivju, and his wife Gry Molvær Hivju. They are hosting the series Ultimate Viking, which will air on Smithsonian Channel in 2021. The crew filmed both in our high mountains and in the glacial archaeology exhibition in Lom. "We were never in doubt that we had to include glacial archaeology in the documentary. The finds from the Innlandet ice are unique."

Thanks for the visit, guys. Fara heil ok vel!🙂

Espen and Reidar have spent October surveying old

Espen and Reidar have spent October surveying old high@mountain trails heading west. Reidar is standing by a collapsed old cairn, in front of a valley filled with clouds. As you can see, winter snow has now fallen in the high mountains. Further surveys are thus well-nigh impossible and fieldwork this year is effectively over.
Winter is coming❄️

This is the Juvfonne ice patch as it looks now. St

This is the Juvfonne ice patch as it looks now. Still a lot of snow from last winter, and old ice is just appearing in the center. The weather forecast shows cold temperatures, snow and heavy winds in the coming days and this means that our field season is over. Wasn't much of a field season anyway due to the extra snow this year, but we did manage to find one new site.

This is the way it is with glacial archaeology: some years there are melts and other years we have extra snow. It is a bit like the Arctic sea ice – it goes up and down, but the trend is clearly down. The good thing is that a bad year for glacial archaeology is a good year for the glaciers 😊

(Photo: Liss M. Andreassen)

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