A hiker in Norway discovered a one-of-a-kind wild reindeer trap that Iron age inhabitants would have used to catch their dinner en masse.

Alongside the large wooden trap was a trove of hunting supplies and other artifacts, revealing a wealth of information about the culture and organization of early Norwegian society in the far north.

Dating to between 500 BCE and 500 CE, the Norwegian Iron age was characterized by a settlement of various fjords by wealthy individuals and an expansion in the organized hunting of wild reindeer.

Consisting of two parallel fences made of many cut wooden logs, their appearance above an ice sheet startled a local hiker named Helge Titland as he was trekking on the Aurlandsfjellet Plateau high in the mountains of Norway’s Vestland County in 2024.

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