Is the location of a burial outside a Christian cemetery.

Viking boat burial iceland. Archaeologists have announced that they found three Viking-age boat burials in quick succession on a fjord along Icelands northern coast this week. One of them was the final resting place of a high-ranking Viking. Last September a Viking age sword was found in southern Iceland.

Another unusual thing about the find is that Viking burials that have not been looted are rare. Undisturbed Viking age graves are also rare as many Viking age burials discovered in Iceland have been disturbed and robbed. Horse remains it turns out are one of the most common items found in the 355 known Viking graves uncovered on Iceland with bits and pieces of 175.

MYSTERIOUS DOUBLE VIKING BOAT BURIAL DISCOVERED In another project a Swedish grave containing the skeleton of a Viking warrior long thought to be male was confirmed as female. Icelandic pagan burials are relatively numerous and are thus a major source of archaeological knowledge regarding the Viking Age in Iceland. They believe they may find more Viking burials in the vicinity and hope they will be unlooted.

The site dates from the early 11 th century and features 52 burials probably of three to five generations of one farming family. On 13th June Icelandic archaeologists state sponsored working at a large burial site in Eyjafjörður fjord in northern part of Iceland came across the remnants of a ship burial dating from the Viking Age circa 9th or 10th century AD. In the following days archaeologists discovered in total four boat burials all from the 10th century.

It is impossible to know what valuables and artifacts have been removed from disturbed graves. The graveyard is in the modern town of Vinjeøra abutting a Viking-era farm and it also boasts several boat burials in which the deceased were interred inside wooden vessels. Researchers come across multiple Viking ship burials in north Iceland.

Yesterday archeologists discovered a second boat burial at an archeological site at Dysnes ness in Eyjafjörður fjord in North Iceland. Thirteen human skeletal remains six horse skeletons and the remains of three dogs were found at the site. In one of the graves the deceased individual had been placed in a sitting position at the rear of a boat Age.