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Discovered in 1960, L’Anse aux Meadows is the first authenticated Norse site found in North America and could be Leif Ericsson's short-lived Vinland camp. Some time about AD 1000, Norse seafarers established a base here from which they explored southwards. The traces of bog iron found, the first known example of iron smelting in the new world, together with evidence of carpentry, suggest that boat repair was an important activity. The distance from their homelands and conflict with Native people may have led the Norse to abandon the site.
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