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Jan. 21st, 2008 12:14 pm Meli Duckworth has photos of the stone ship at Blomsholm.
According to Wikipedia, that source of all knowledge: The Stone ship was a Germanic burial custom, typical for Scandinavia with scattered examples in Northern Germany and along the coast of the Baltic States (where they are called devil ships). They are believed to have represented the actual burning ship in which the dead was sent out to the sea. Excavations have shown that they are usually from the latter part of the Nordic Bronze Age ca. 1000 BC - 500 BC (e.g. Gotland) or from the Germanic Iron Age, the Vendel Age and the Viking Age (e.g. Blekinge and Scania).
And that's about all the internet will find me, aside from a few references on sites like Lonely Planet, who tell me that the ship is over 40m long.
I wants to know more, preciouss. Somebody direct me to useful sources of information?
According to Wikipedia, that source of all knowledge: The Stone ship was a Germanic burial custom, typical for Scandinavia with scattered examples in Northern Germany and along the coast of the Baltic States (where they are called devil ships). They are believed to have represented the actual burning ship in which the dead was sent out to the sea. Excavations have shown that they are usually from the latter part of the Nordic Bronze Age ca. 1000 BC - 500 BC (e.g. Gotland) or from the Germanic Iron Age, the Vendel Age and the Viking Age (e.g. Blekinge and Scania).
And that's about all the internet will find me, aside from a few references on sites like Lonely Planet, who tell me that the ship is over 40m long.
I wants to know more, preciouss. Somebody direct me to useful sources of information?