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
Fig. 229.—Clay urn, upside down, to cover a bronze basin, of Roman
manufacture, placed on a slab filled with ashes and burnt bones,
fragments of bronze ornaments and glass vessels which had been
exposed on the pyre; ashes and bones were scattered round, showing
the burning to have taken place on the spot. ⅓ real size.—Harf
Medelpad, Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 230.—Clay urn in a stone cist containing the remains of a
skeleton, &c. ¼ real size.—Sojvide, Gotland.
]
In Gotland, the graves are made of lime slabs. Some of these stone cists
are not deep under the ground, and without apparently any mound.
[Illustration:
Fig. 231.—Clay urn, ⅓ real size, found in a round mound, inside a
sepulchral chamber of the length of 6 feet, width 2 feet, height 1
foot 8 inches.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 232.—Clay urn, ½ real size, found in a mound containing a large
stone cist, with fragments of iron objects and another clay
urn.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 233.—Clay urn, in a mound. Bohuslan.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 234.—Clay urn in a stone cist.—Gotland.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 235.—Clay urn, covering one filled with burnt bones. ¼ real
size.—Nafverstad, Bohuslån.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 236.—Clay urn, with three partitions (on the outside are ten
knobs), found, with fragments of a belt hook, under a stone slab. ⅔
real size.—Himmelshöi, Bornholm.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 237.—Clay urn, ⅓ real size, found in a round mound, inside a
sepulchral chamber.—Stavanger, Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 238.—Clay urn, ¼ real size, found in a mound.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 239.—Clay urn, ¼ real size, containing burnt bones.—Norway.
Earlier iron age.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 240.—Clay urn, ⅓ real size, found in a mound placed over burnt
bones contained in a clay urn.—Norway. Earlier iron age.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 241.—Clay urn.—Norway. ½ real size. Skeleton grave, found with
five other clay urns, a silver fibula, &c.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 242.—Clay urn filled with burnt bones and covered with another
vase. ¼ real size. Found in a large round tumulus—Bohuslån.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 243.—Clay urn, containing burnt bones and fragments of a bone
comb, glass beads, lever balance of spindle, &c., found, covered
with a slab, in an oblong mound. ⅓ real size. Earlier iron age.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 244.—Iron urn or kettle, 10 inches high, 12¾ inches in diameter,
and 6 inches deep.—Norway. Three other kettles of same shape and
workmanship have been found: one in a grave-mound.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 245.—Bronze cinerary urn; ⅕ real size.—Norway.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 246.—Bronze kettle, ⅕ real size.—Norway. Found under a slab in
the border of a round mound. It contained burnt bones, among which
was a gold bracelet, and other objects.
]
[Illustration:
Fig. 247.
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[Illustration:
Fig. 248.
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