Archaeology
First attempts at finding the exact location of the town date back to early sixteenth century. Based on archaeological finds from 1897 and excavations which began in the 1920s, archaeologists located Truso around Janów Pomorski, Poland, in the south-eastern suburb of Elbląg. Found artifacts, dating from the 7th to 12th century, were stored in a local museum and are now on exhibition at the Elbląg Museum. In the 1980s, the Polish archaeologist Marek Jagodziński resumed excavations and cleared a c. 20 hectare site, in which a series of structures were burnt down around the year 1000 AD.
Gwyn Jones notes that "no true town has been found and excavated" and that the identification of the site in Elbląg with Truso is based on "finds of Norse weapons" and the presence of "a large Viking Age cemetery" nearby, According to Mateusz Bogucki "by now, there is no doubt that the settlement really is Wulfstan's Truso" The Elbląg Museum brochure: Truso- A Discovered Legend, by Marek F Jagodziński, describes a large number of buildings found during the recent excavations, with burnt remains of posts suggesting buildings of c. 5 x 10 m and long houses of about 6 x 21 m.
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