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Have no idea about the situation in Norway, but in some other countries the archaeologists put stuff like this under embargo until the site can be 'secured' against treasure hunters (i.e. gone over with the best metal detectors to find and collect everything easily discoverable). Its really sad and says bad things about the world. The big news finally breaks when everything is done, or just before excavations that are hard to hide begin.

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More likely that it generally takes lots of time to do this work. Archaeological projects generally produce lots of material and call for work that can't be easily automated. On top of that, archaeological projects tend to be poorly funded, and if carried out by an academic institution then field research tends to be limited to summer months. The variety of materials recovered must be examined by various specialists, and then re-integrated, analysed and synthesized into summary reports. This takes time.

Moreover, most archaeological sites are not secured. There is no room in the budget for that, unless the state sets aside funds for that kind of thing (very rare, though Norway might be a notable exception)

It was publicly announced in 2018. See for example: https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/vikingskip-funn-gar-verden-ru...

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