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L'Anse aux Meadows (lit. ' Meadows Cove ') is an archaeological site, first excavated in the 1960s, of a Norse settlement dating to approximately 1,000 years ago. The site is located on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador near St. Anthony.
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The first National Historic Sites to be designated in the province were Fort Amherst, Fort Townshend and Signal Hill in 1951. [5] The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, a National Historic Site commemorating Dominion of Newfoundland forces killed during World War I, is located in France.
The location of L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. Evidence of the Norse west of Greenland came in the 1960s when archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad and author Helge Ingstad excavated a Norse site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. They found a bronze, ring-headed pin like those the Norse used to fasten their cloaks inside the cooking pit of ...
Route 436, also known as L'Anse aux Meadows Road, is a 29.1-kilometre-long (18.1 mi) north-south highway on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
In 2021, wood from the site was shown to have been cut in 1021, using metal blades, which the local indigenous people did not have. [39] Although it is now generally accepted that L'Anse aux Meadows was the main base of the Norse explorers, [40] the southernmost limit of Norse exploration remains a subject of intense speculation.
L'Anse aux Meadows, which was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1968 and a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978, is located 40 km from St. Anthony. [3] St. Anthony is the largest population centre on the Great Northern Peninsula.
Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) [1] was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the province of Newfoundland in Canada.