Not to be confused with Burial at sea or Stone ship.
Excavation of the Oseberg Ship burial mound in Norway
A ship burial or boat grave is a burial in which a ship or boat is used either as the tomb for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave goods itself. If the ship is very small, it is called a boat grave. This style of burial was practiced by various seafaring cultures in Asia and Europe. Notable ship burial practices include those by the Germanic peoples, particularly by Viking Age Norsemen, as well as the pre-colonial ship burials described in the Boxer Codex (c. 15th century) in the Philippines.
A shipburial or boat grave is a burial in which a ship or boat is used either as the tomb for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave...
have been excavating the area since 1938, when a previously undisturbed shipburial containing a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artefacts was discovered. The site...
examples of Viking shipburials have been excavated, e.g. the Oseberg ship in Norway, containing the remains of two women, the Gokstad ship in Norway, and...
Burial at sea is the disposal of human remains in the ocean, normally from a ship, boat or aircraft. It is regularly performed by navies, and is done...
The Oseberg ship (Norwegian: Osebergskipet) is a well-preserved Viking ship discovered in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold...
Gokstad ship is a 9th-century Viking ship found in a burial mound at Gokstad in Sandar, Sandefjord, Vestfold, Norway. It is displayed at the Viking Ship Museum...
Denmark. A prominent tradition is that of the shipburial, where the deceased was laid in a boat, or a stone ship, and given grave offerings in accordance...
Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects....
coordinates) In several Viking shipburials from Norway and Sweden, including the Oseberg shipburial (dated to 834) and Gokstad shipburial (dated to the late 9th...
Horse burial is the practice of burying a horse as part of the ritual of human burial, and is found among many Indo-European speaking peoples and others...
Anglo-Saxon helmet found during a 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship-burial. It was buried around the years c. 620–625 CE and is widely associated...
The Ladby ship is a major shipburial at the village of Ladby near Kerteminde in Denmark. It is of the type also represented by the boat chamber grave...
buried ship was found previously by a NIKU group in 2018, in Gjellestad. The Gjellestad (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈjɛ̂lːəˌstɑː]) shipburial, also spelt...
Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon shipburial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "one of the most important...
The stone ship or ship setting was an early burial custom in Scandinavia, Northern Germany, and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial was surrounded...
in a shipburial mound (Båthaugen, from the Old Norse words båt meaning boat and haugr meaning mound or barrow). It was discovered when the burial mound...
tapestry fragments, a partially preserved tapestry found within the shipburial, also features the symbol. Additionally, the valknut appears prominently...
village of Salme on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia. Both ships were used for shipburials here around AD 700–750 in the Nordic Iron Age and contained...
important shipburial from the Vendel Period with four skeletons, formerly covered by a cairn and now heavily damaged. It is one of only three shipburials found...
excavated shipburial at Ladby in Denmark. Shipburials were also practised by Vikings overseas, as evidenced by the excavations of the Salme ships on the...
ones to be buried intact. The burial custom seems to have disappeared after the Roman occupation of Britain. Shipburial Sun chariot Prehistoric Britain...
wilderness. His boat-funeral, too, has been likened to Scyld Scefing's ship-burial in Beowulf. Boromir appears in animated and live-action films of Lord...
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