Stones set in the shape of a boat in north European burials
Not to be confused with Ship burial or Stone frigate.
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 by slabs or stones in the shape of a boat or ship. The ships vary in size and were erected from c. 1000BCE to 1000CE.
The stoneship or ship setting was an early burial custom in Scandinavia, Northern Germany, and the Baltic states. The grave or cremation burial was surrounded...
Easter Island Egyptian Pyramids Medicine wheels Stone circle Stone circle (Iron Age) Stonehenge Stoneship See also: Petroforms Rock art Inukshuk v t e...
Denmark. A prominent tradition is that of the ship burial, where the deceased was laid in a boat, or a stoneship, and given grave offerings in accordance...
Standing stone carved into a human shape Stone circle – Ring of standing stonesStone row – Linear row of standing stones. Also stone alignment. Stoneship –...
Gorm's runestone Boris stones — similar landmarks in Belarus Curmsun Disc Bornholm amulet Haraldskær Woman Jelling stoneship — a ship setting that lay between...
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collect all six Stones by decimating Xandar to obtain the Power Stone. He then tracks down the Space Stone and intercepts the Asgardian ship on its way to...
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...
also the former crew from Prometheus Fire and Stone, the pair eventually lure the Engineer onto the ship they arrived in and detonate it. Without a way...
any stone-built receptacle) Recumbent effigy Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel Stoneship Church monuments English church monuments Ledger stone Monumental...
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from ruling over land, so the land was commissioned as a ship. The command of this first stone frigate was given to Commodore Hood's first lieutenant,...
designed by Burnam Hoyt within the area between two massive slabs of Red stone (Ship Rock and Creation Rock). Denver Mayor Ben Stapleton resisted developing...
sternwheel steamer. Any ship that was a member of the stone fleet during the American Civil War. The old sunken ships were loaded with stone, and used by the...
the Nordic Bronze Age depict ships, and the large stone burial monuments known as stoneships. Those sites suggest that ships and seafaring played an important...
thrones, with one stone serving as seat and another as the back rest. The first clear report of a rai stone is from a British ship log entry dated 23...
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a large stoneship from around the end of the 9th century. Between the two mounds stand two rune stones, the Jelling stones. Near the stones, Gorm's son...
related to the house of Wuffingas. Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern Ship burial Stoneship Harrison (2009), p. 68 Harrison (2009), pp. 21-23 Västhögen. "Västhögen"...
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