Cremated bones, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Remains from a funeral pyre including bone fragments and ceramic urn, early 10th century, from Klinta, Kopingsvik, Oland, in the Swedish History Museum, a history and archaeology museum founded 1866, in Stockholm, Sweden. The pyre was in a ship, containing a woman and a man wrapped in bearskins, with sacrificed animals and objects. The woman wore 3 gilded brooches, almost 200 beads of glass, carnelian and rock crystal, a pendant and 2 copper plates inscribed with runes. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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1866 Bead Beads Bearskins Bones Brooches Carnelian Containing Cremated Cremation Fragment Fragments Historiska Museer Museet Norse Oland Pendant Pyre Runes Sacrificed Statens Stockholm Viking Wore Wrapped

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