The case is being updated.
On Wednesday, the local newspaper wrote UP that unauthorized persons had entered the burial ground at Vang and drilled deep holes in 17 of the Viking graves.
– It’s awful! Many organic finds are lost, and objects can be lost when air enters the graves, said curator Thora Nyborg at the Science Museum to local newspapers.
She did not rule out that the people who were in the burial ground could have brought with them valuable objects. The “grave looting” was reported to the police, but on Friday the case was dropped, according to UP.
– It seems that it is a badger that is behind, says cultural consultant Sjur Vammervold in Oppdal municipality to Dagbladet.
– It is at least good that there were no people. The badger is quite innocent and probably has completely different purposes than a grave robbery, he adds.
The burial ground at Vang in Sør-Trøndelag is Norway’s largest, with over seven hundred registered burial mounds.
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