Ummmm… Oops?
Archaeologists have admitted to having been made to look “very silly” after mistaking a 1940s sunken patio for a 9th century Viking village.
Fife County Archaeologist Douglas Spiers says his team concluded the slabs found in the back garden of a Buckhaven home had originally been hauled by Norse settlers from a nearby beach.
Even the discovery of a Second World War gas mask on the plot failed to deter them from their theory that this was the first evidence ever seen of Viking homes built on mainland Scotland, reports the Daily Mail.
It was only when the site had been completely cleared, and all the stones exposed, that the truth became apparent.
[via BottomQuark]