Buildings and Drain, Whithorn
View of the lower part of the site at Whithorn, showing the
waterlogged area which preserved organic deposits and leather. The
12th century drain cutting through the site can clearly be seen,
and the big slabs centre left are the bridge over the earlier
Northumbrian drain - clearly the flooding of the site was an
ongoing problem for several centuries.
In the background a reconstruction of one of the houses from the
Viking town is being built. Traces of nearly eighty such buildings
were found during the excavations, the first Viking town ever to be
excavated on the Scottish mainland.
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