Lindholm Høje
The Lindholm Høje burial ground was in use during Germanic iron age and Viking age, from the 5th to the 10th century.Almost 700 people were buried here.
The graves are arranged chronologically - the oldest graves from the Iron Age are near the top of the hill, and the further down till the youngest ones.
The oldest graves are inhumation graves covered by a small mound. There are only a few of these, as a burial custom was soon changed into cremation.
More than 600 graves are cremations. Of these more than half are surrounded by a stone-setting.
The graves containing men are shaped pointy like viking ships or as a triangle, while women's graves are round or oval.
This is a typical man's ship shaped cremation grave, where a man was put on top of a fire within the stone circumference and cremated.
Куме, ти моїх овець не видів?
Norresundby,
9nov2008