Stone ships were an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial was 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.

The Jelling stone ship is a stone ship, the longest known to have existed, remains of which lie under the two royal barrows at Jelling, Denmark. The Jelling ship was formerly thought to have extended between the two mounds and been 170 metres (560 ft) long, by far the longest stone ship discovered.

2018年8月10日 · There are about 350 stone ships scattered around the island, and about 15 of them are visitable by tourists. These boat-shaped stone graves provided a Viking-like burial to carry the dead to the...

2019年3月29日 · These stone ship burial sites, also called "ship settings" are found throughout Scandinavia and were usually built during the Viking era starting in the late 8th century. But Tjelevar's Grave...

2019年1月27日 · But scholars believed that the Viking Stone Ship was not merely for the deceased. The first discovery of the Viking Stone Ship construction was seen as a grave mound. The archaeologists agreed that the construction of Viking Stone Ship was for the cremation burials. A number of stones would surround the grave burial.

Stone ships were an early burial custom, characteristically Scandinavian but also found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial was 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.

2021年7月21日 · The Jelling stone ship is situated in a Viking burial complex, which lies under two large burial mounds constructed by King Harald Bluetooth in Jelling, Denmark. Stone ship burials was characteristically a Scandinavian burial custom, although similar examples have been found in Northern Germany and the Baltic states.

Stone ships were an impressive feat of engineering and craftsmanship, created by the Vikings to serve as sacred burial monuments. These ship-shaped structures varied in size, but most were between 50-100 feet in length. The design of stone ships typically consisted of a keel, stem, and stern post, made of large stones in a ship-like formation.

Ship-like stone settings and rock art ships. The layout of the ship-like stone settings shows that the majority have a more or less symmetrical (in Swedish spetsgattad) form, showing considerable similarities with the ships from the Iron Age excavated in …

The Jelling Stone Ship, Palisade and Royal Hall. The excavation of the South Mound in 1941 revealed a number of large stones which were originally thought to mark some sort of enclosure under the mound. in 2007 Vejle Museum began new …