An ordinary ancient burial scene discovered on the shores of the fjord near Oslo, Norway, has allowed archaeologists to better perceive the richest members of northern European society during the first millennium AD.
The burial, which was first discovered through a local resident who applied for permission to build drainage ditches, has since been studied through a team of six researchers led by Lars Gustavsen of the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research. His findings have now been published in an article in Antiquity magazine.
At the center of the discovery at the Jell Mound, as it is known, there is a boat of excitement of about 70 feet, in which the dead were placed to take them safely to the afterlife.
According to Antiquity newspaper, the burial of a shipment “the ultimate expression of status, wealth and connection in iron age Scandinavia”, giving the site a glimpse into the life of a% of the era spanning around 500 years. C. a. 1050 d. C.
It includes the remains of an unusually giant room more than 120 feet long, where meetings and political and devoted parties were likely to take place.
The structure, which would have been visual from a certain distance, probably represents an attempt through a network to identify domination at a time when control of the territory came here and passed between dynastic families.
The flower and cream of Scandinavian society carried out “ostentatious funeral rituals” there, as indicated through a burial mound about nine meters high and about one hundred meters through about 80 meters, which was created between the 5th and 6th centuries AD.
Previous discoveries, not yet studied, in the same place come with copper alloy pins and rings, as well as valuable coins and metal fragments, adding a gold blackbird, a pendant related to the burial of high-status women.
Evidence of an upcoming burial intrusion suggests the desecration and removal of monuments from past characters.
There is evidence that the Vikings may have damaged Jell Mound’s burial site in connection with well-organized intrusions, suggesting that the desecrations intended to be a political statement, that a mere theft of graves.
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