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Ice melt in the mountains of Norway has revealed an iron horseshoe and bridle that may date to the Viking Age, which ended roughly 1,000 years ago.
Abnormally warm weather this summer led to a rapid increase in ice melt throughout the region, revealing the artifacts, according to the Miami Herald. "This is a place where travelers would have used the snow in the gully for an easy walk instead of struggling among the stones in the scree," or a mountain slope covered with small, loose stones, Lars Holger Pilø, co-director of Secrets of the Ice, a glacier archaeology program based in Norway that made the discovery, told Live Science in an email."They left behind many finds in the gully, which preserved by the snow and ice here.
Pilø said that the"shape of the bridle makes it difficult to date," and that further study is required. However, archaeologists think it could date to the Viking Age .
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