barrow Význam & definice

Příklady barrow

• I only wish to remark that these heathland reclamations were responsible for the destruction of the vast majority of barrow cemeteries.

• Seen from this perspective, it is understandable that the notion that the urnfields and barrows were funerary monuments is never found in the sagas.

• The barrows, which were clearly visible in the landscape as 'unnatural' features, may have been related to earlier mythical inhabitants of the land.

• And might the lack of earlier barrow destruction also have something to do with more extensive farming systems?

• We can say that these zones saw the development of real 'barrow landscapes'.

• These so-called bottom graves are known exclusively from large barrows and were associated with richer funerary gifts than shaft graves.

• The two barrows with middle bronze age cremations both have shallow ditches, interrupted by a causeway to the south.

• Because of the continuity in aspects of burial ritual, barrows could still be interpreted as 'graves of former inhabitants'.