L’Anse aux Meadows
It was later abandoned by the Vikings. It is howAnd to America. ever now recognised as L’Anse aux Meadows. the oldest settlement Included because rath- of Europeans in North er than holding any- America. thing of much value, it The excavated remains corrects history. It’s a of peat turf buildings Viking settlement found with wooden frames are at the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland, in North America and excavated from the ‘60s to the ‘70s, that dates back to the 11th century. That’s some four hundred years before Columbus stumbled across America. 49 similar to those in Norse Greenland and Iceland. Also found were a workshop, a forge and a furnace, along with iron items like nails and buckles typical of Viking manufacture.