"Discovery Could Rewrite History of Vikings in New World" Topic

"It's a two-mile trudge through forested, swampy ground to reach Point Rosee, a narrow, windswept peninsula stretching from southern Newfoundland into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Last June, a team of archaeologists was drawn to this remote part of Canada by a modern-day treasure map: satellite imagery revealing ground features that could be evidence of past human activity.

The treasure they discovered here—a stone hearth used for working iron—could rewrite the early history of North America and aid the search for lost Viking settlements described in Norse sagas centuries ago.

To date, the only confirmed Viking site in the New World is L'Anse aux Meadows, a thousand-year-old way station discovered in 1960 on the northern tip of Newfoundland. It was a temporary settlement, abandoned after just a few years, and archaeologists have spent the past half-century searching for elusive signs of other Norse expeditions.

"The sagas suggest a short period of activity and a very brief and failed colonization attempt," says Douglas Bolender, an archaeologist specializing in Norse settlements. "L'Anse aux Meadows fits well with that story but is only one site. Point Rosee could reinforce that story or completely change it if the dating is different from L'Anse aux Meadows. We could end up with a much longer period of Norse activity in the New World."…"
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It will very interesting what else they find there.

If I recall correctly, they found some bog iron which was undated, a lump of Viking "metal" which turned out to be a rock, some Viking "iron scrapings" which turned out to be natural iron oxide and a Viking berry seed which turned out to be from the 1700's. Also a turf wall that was too near the surface to be Viking according to the professor involved.
The look on the academics' faces when the show host concludes that it's a Viking site is worth watching.

The most interesting part is that York is built on 3 metres of excrement and the population was riddled with parasites. The scientist even brings out a fossilized piece to examine.