British archaeologists believe they have found the remains of a 1,000-year-old Viking longship underneath a pub near Liverpool.

The ship is thought to lie beneath two metres of clay, under the car park of the Railway Inn pub on the Wirral peninsula in Merseyside.

The Vikings are known to have settled in the area.

An archaeologist from the University of Nottingham used ground-penetrating radar to pinpoint the location of the remains.

He says they are of a Nordic-style vessel from a time when Vikings came to the area.