Mystery or the unexplained · 18.04.1939
The ancient ship in Lehviva bog
Lehviva soos lebav iidne laev
In April 1939 the head of the Narva town museum went to see a find that excited archaeologists: an old ship's hull sunk into the so-called Lehviva bog near Puhkova village, about 4 km inland from the Meriküla shore, on the floor of what had once been a sea bay. Local people said they had always known about it. The old folk remembered when timbers, blackened by the bog, still stuck out of the ground. Papers guessed it could be 2,000 years old and claimed that some Danes had asked for permission to dig there 25 years earlier but been refused. Excavation was planned for when the bog dried out.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
1939. aasta aprillis käis Narva linnamuuseumi juhataja vaatamas leidu, mis erutas arheolooge: Puhkova küla lähedal nn Lehviva soos, Meriküla rannast umbes 4 km sisemaal, endise merelahe põhjas lebas sohu vajunud vana laevakere. Kohalikud elanikud kinnitasid, et teadsid sellest ammu. Vanemad inimesed mäletasid aega, mil soos mustaks tõmbunud puuosad veel maa seest välja paistsid. Ajalehed oletasid, et laev võib olla 2000 aastat vana, ja kirjutasid, et juba 25 aastat varem olid taanlased palunud seal kaevamisluba, kuid seda ei antud. Väljakaevamist kavatseti alustada, kui soo kuivemaks muutub.