Waterford News and Star has the article Woodstown excavation to proceed! on the planned excavation to resolve the question whether or not Woodstown represents western Europe’s first Viking town or whether it was a ship-building site which also attracted traders from Scandinavia and the Middle East.

Woodstown was founded by the Déise, who were kings of a maritime kingdom long before the Scandinavians reached the shores of Ireland. The excavation can give information on the whole process by which the Irish, especially the Déisemen, took over Roman culture in the west, adopting and adapting it and reexporting it back to Europe.

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