Rare Viking 'toolbox' found at Borgring, Denmark

[Imperial Dave]

http://www.livescience.com/57063-viking-tools-found-at-mysterious-fortress.html

doesnt say why the tools were left there in a chest though....?

[Patrick Waterson]

doesnt say why the tools were left there in a chest though....?

"Iron was valuable in Viking-age Denmark, and the researchers think the tools once belonged to a craftsman who occupied a workroom in the gatehouse until it collapsed in the late 10th century."

If that statement is literally true ... pull out the body; tools too far buried to retrieve?

[Jim Webster]

doesnt say why the tools were left there in a chest though....?

"Iron was valuable in Viking-age Denmark, and the researchers think the tools once belonged to a craftsman who occupied a workroom in the gatehouse until it collapsed in the late 10th century."

If that statement is literally true ... pull out the body; tools too far buried to retrieve?

Yes I did wonder where the body of the owner was because I couldn't imagine him being happy to leave them

[Imperial Dave]

ahhhh, i never thought of the literal sense of the statement!

[Patrick Waterson]

It is an explanation, anyway.

The craftsman's assumed misfortune fortunately gives us a splendid selection of period tools.