Anundshög Ship Setting
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Anundshög Ship Setting
Hannah Bailey
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08/2009
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Anundshög, Sverige, Sweden, Västerås, Västmanland
The Stone ships (Skeppssättning)(Nordic bronze age - Viking age)
Ship settings
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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Anundshög, Västerås (Slide-Show)
Archaeological site
Anundshög, Västerås. Sveriges största gravhög.
(A slide-show with pictures of Anundshög burial mound, ship settings and surrounding area. Captions in Swedish)
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Anundshög Official Website
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The official home page for Anundshög, Sweden’s largest prehistoric burial mound, and Viking Age ship setting.
Anundshög
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Double ship-setting at Anundshög, Sweden
Ship setting
A double ship setting at the <span>prehistoric burial mound at </span>Anundshög in Sweden, the largest of 5 ship settings on the site. Many ship settings pre-date the Viking Age, but also occur up to the year 1000AD, and are associated with pre-Christian burial customs (the shiup setting sometimes containing remains). They may be thought of as substitutes for (or representative of) the ships used in burials, and of the journey to the afterlife. <br /><br />For more information about Anundshög, see the <a href="http://www.anundshog.se/" target="_blank">official website</a>.
Anundshög (personal photo)
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Tjelvar's grave
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According to legend the grave of the discoverer of Gotland. This stone ship setting dates to the Nordic Bronze Age and shows that the ship settings of later periods belong in a Scandinavian tradition that goes back many years.
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750 BC, Gotland, Sweden, Bronze Age