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'Vulva stone' and coin jewelry among remarkable treasures discovered at Viking burial site in Norway

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Three Viking graves were found on the west coast of Norway by metal detectorists.

They date back to the early 800s A.D., during the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066) One of the women was buried with rocks in the shape of a 13-foot-long ( 4 meter ) boat to accompany her to the afterlife.

At the spot where the mast would be, a stone shaped like a vulva, may have been used to symbolize the woman buried there.