The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nationsDu Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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The Viking Age. Volume 1 (of 2): The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations
The length of the stone coffin was generally from 8 to 13½ feet, width
from 3 to 5 feet, height from 2½ to 5 feet. A few, especially in
Vestergötland, are from 19½ to 31 feet in length, one of the longest
graves of this kind in Sweden being one on Stora Lundskulla, in
Vestergötland, with a length of 34 feet, and width of 8 feet. Nearly all
other stone coffins found are, like the gallery graves, without a stone
at the southern end. This cannot be accidental.
Besides the stone coffin above described, several have been found
covered with a mound. The chambers are generally formed of upright flat
stones, and roofed also with stones. They are generally smaller than the
stone coffins, being from 6 to 10 feet long, and closed on all four
sides; sometimes, however, there is found in the southern end an opening
as previously mentioned.
POTTERY.
[Illustration:
Fig. 16.—Clay urn—Stone age—⅓ real size. In passage grave, Stege,
island of Möen, Baltic, found with remains of some skeletons. Two
stone axes, a flint saw, 2 arrow-points, 3 spear-heads, fragments of
clay vessels with covers, pieces of a wooden tub, 2 awls of bone, a
chisel of bone, 3 flint wedges, 2 flat scrapers of flint, and 17
amber beads for necklace were also found in the grave. The same
mound was afterwards used for burials belonging to the bronze age,
with cinerary urns with burned bones, on the top of which was a
double-edged bronze knife, &c.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 17.—Amber-beads forming a necklace found in the grave with the
clay urn.
The same mound was afterwards used for burial belonging to the bronze
age; near the top, and entirely separate from the burial-chambers,
there was discovered a very small stone coffin containing an urn
with burnt bones, and on these lay a fine double-edged knife, a
knife, and a pair of pincers, all of bronze.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 18.—Clay vessel found near Fredericia, Jutland. ⅓ real size.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 19.—Clay urn. Stone age grave, with flint weapons and
amber-beads. ⅓ real size. Island of Möen.
]
POTTERY OF THE STONE AGE.
[Illustration:
Fig. 20.—Necklace of amber beads found with other amber beads and
ornaments, altogether about 2,500, in a bog at the hamlet of Lœsten,
Viborg amt, Jutland. ¼ real size.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 21.—Clay vessel which had a top, Stone age. ⅓ real size.—Möen.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 22.—Stone axes, of the form of some bronze axes. Several
specimens in the Copenhagen Museum. ⅓ real size.—Fyen.
The two axes in this page are given on account of their peculiar form,
similar
to that of the bronze age. Many other forms of weapons will be found
illustrated in ‘The Land of the Midnight Sun.’
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 23.—Clay vessel found in a burial chamber with flint implements
and other objects near Aalborg, Denmark. ⅓ real size.
]
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