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LG 0544 Reconstructed wheel-grave from the Lilla Bjärs site, Hembygdmuseum, Stenkyrka, north western Gotland, Sweden. Approximately 17m in diameter and from the late Bronze and Iron Age. Two limestone coffins containing cremated bones and bronze fragments were found beneath the central cairn. Keywords: Wheel-grave cairn Stenkyrka Gotland Sweden Swedish Lilla Bjars Bjärs late Bronze Age Iron Age death burial cairn circular round circle spokes old ancient prehistoric afterlife lgpl
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Photographer: Leslie Garland
Collection: Sweden
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LG 0544
Upload Date: 2009-07-10 10:44:05
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Reconstructed wheel-grave from the Lilla Bjärs site, Hembygdmuseum, Stenkyrka, north

western Gotland, Sweden.
Approximately 17m in diameter and from the late Bronze and Iron Age. Two limestone coffins containing cremated bones and bronze fragments were found beneath the central cairn.
Keywords: Wheel-grave cairn Stenkyrka Gotland Sweden Swedish Lilla Bjars Bjärs late Bronze Age Iron Age death burial cairn circular round circle spokes old ancient prehistoric afterlife lgpl