The Stone ships (Skeppssättning)(Nordic bronze age - Viking age)

Title

The Stone ships (Skeppssättning)(Nordic bronze age - Viking age)

Subject

Ship settings

Description

The Stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial is surrounded by tightly or loosely fit slabs or stones in the outline of a ship. They are often found in grave fields, but are sometimes far from any other archaeological remains. Excavations have shown that they are usually from the Nordic Bronze Age or from the Germanic Iron Age, the Vendel Age and the Viking Age.
The largest known stone ship is the mostly destroyed Jelling stone ship in Denmark, which was at least 170 metres long.

Stone ships in this video:
Ale's Stones
Tjelvars grave
Anundshög
Blomsholm stone ship
Gannarve stone ship
Mjösjön stone ship
Nässja stone ship
Askeberga stone ship
Runsa Stone ship
Vätteryd Stone ship

Music: Lord Wind - The temple of harmony

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Creator

BirkaViking

Source

http://YouTube.com

Publisher

BirkaViking
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Date

2014-04-01T19:55:53.000Z

Contributor

Admin

Format

YouTube Video

Language

English

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylo69qbdd3w

Coverage

Scandinavia
Viking Age
Pre-Viking

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