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The Tune ship was the first Viking ship to be excavated and is still the third-best preserved Viking ship in the world. The Tune ship was found in 1867 on Nedre Haugen farm at Rolvsøy, near Fredrikstad. The burial mound in which the Tune ship lay was unusually large, about 80 metres in diameter and about four metres high, making it one of the country’s largest burial mounds. In the years before the excavation, much of the earth in the mound had been removed for use elsewhere. The mound had also been opened and partly excavated previously. This meant that oxygen had been introduced, which had started to decompose the ship inside. The Tune ship was built in around 900AD and is clinker built of oak. The ship probably had 12 oar holes on each side. That would mean a crew of 24 oarsmen plus a steersman and lookout. But no oars were placed in the ship when it was buried.The ship is estimated to have been 18.7 metres long and 4.2 metres wide, with 12 rows of strakes. The upper rows of strakes and posts are gone, and as it stands today, the ship has only the 10 lowest rows of strakes, although there are holes and marks where the upper two rows were fixed. The two extra strakes would have given a high enough freeboard to prevent quite high waves from swamping the ship.  
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Sirenia- The Other Side

Band from Stavanger

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