Summary

Model of a Viking single-masted, clinker plank hull ship with 32 oars. This model is based on a 9th-century Viking longship found in a burial mound at Gokstad in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway, and excavated The ship was initially dated to about 850 AD, although later tree-ring analysis of the wood it contains suggested that it was built using timber from trees felled around 890 AD. The original ship is housed at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, Norway and is the largest preserved Viking ship in Norway.

The model was made by S.F. Anderson, of Maryborough, Victoria, and was one of two models he entered in the Science Museum of Victoria's 1970 centenary model-making competition, with the other being a similar style natural wood finish model of a 12-Gun Brig of War (ST 034709). Both models were subsequently purchased by the Museum, with the Brig of War model acquired in 1970, and the Viking Burial Ship model in September 1971.

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