Contoh 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'.

• The explanations put forward for this are the low number of barrows known and their emphasis on a 'male ideal'.

• From late neolithic times onwards, barrows were a remarkably persistent element in the structuring of the landscape.

• The use of upright posts to define the edge of the round barrow emphasizes the link between these separate structures (figure 2).

• This barrow contained a central cremation and a series of burials which clustered around the ditch terminals.

• He had trust in his barrow, in his war and his wall: his expectation deceived him.

• In the beginning of this period, the barrows lost their societal meanings as representative of a specific social group (a family).

• The urnfield attitude towards older 79 barrows shows both continuity and contrast.