-
characteristical sign. They were set in
gravefields that had
already been used for centuries, but
sometimes in
these gravefields they were
deposited in
stone cists...
- Neptune's
fields (Swedish:
Neptuni åkrar) is a
nature reserve in the
north of the
island of Öland, Sweden.
Located in
Borgholm Muni****lity
along the Kalmar...
-
inhabited since ancient times.
Excavations have
found traces of
Stone Age
gravefields. However, the
oldest evidence for
there being a town is from the 11th...
- from
gravefields elsewhere on Öland,
including bronze chains and a bone
needle case.
Viking graves have also been
found at the
Hulterstad Gravefield as...
-
congruence with the late
phases of the
Northern Bronze Age can be noted.
Gravefields in today's Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg,
western Pomerania, in Brandenburg...
-
Borgholm Castle,
Halltorps Estate,
Eketorp fortress and the
Gettlinge Gravefield. Much of Öland County's
present day
landscape known as the
Stora Alvaret...
- swords, shields,
helmets and
other items.
Beginning in 1928,
another gravefield containing princely burials was
excavated at Valsgärde. The
pagan custom...
- (at least) 5,600 BCE, when
burial practices resembled the
contemporary gravefields in
Denmark and
South Sweden "in all details",
suggesting only part of...
- times, the
Nordic Bronze Age, are
several remains such as
cists and
gravefields. And from the
Viking Age, ca 800–1,000 AD, are
seven kept runestones...
-
comprising over 170
individual burials,
making it one of the
largest gravefields on Öland.
These burials span the late
Bronze Age, Iron Age and Viking...
