Tanfield Valley

Tanfield Valley, also known as Nanook, is an archaeological site on Imiligaarjuit at the southern end of the Meta Incognita Peninsula on Baffin Island, Nunavut. It has become important in debates over possible pre-Columbian contact between the Indigenous Dorset people and Norse voyagers from Greenland and Iceland. Excavations uncovered a ruined stone-and-sod building and artifacts including spun cordage, whetstones with traces of bronze, brass, and smelted iron, European-style cut stones, reported Old World rat fur, whalebone shovels resembling Greenland examples, and a stone crucible for high-temperature metalworking. Yet the evidence remains contested, and Tanfield Valley has not been conclusively identified as a Norse site.

Nunavut