Ship-Shaped Burial Of Tjelvar – Legendary First Man Who Brought Fire To Gotland

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The legendary landmark is located near the east coast of Gotland and almost directly east of Visby, in the parish of Boge on the island.

It is known as Tjelvar's tomb in the form of a ship dated to the Bronze Age.

The burial site is 18 meters long and 5 meters wide, with gunwale stones that subside towards the boat's center. Inside, the ship is filled with stone like a built-up boat deck. It is believed that the grave dates back to the Late Bronze Age (1100–500 BC).

At the time, graves were built in the form of ships with rows of erected stones. There are about 350 such graves on Gotland; traditionally, only one grave was found in each ship set.

The length of the ships usually varied. However, often, several ship sets were adjacent to each other. Sometimes they were even built together with common stones in the fore or aft. When When the tomb was restored in 1938, a small coffin made of stone slabs was found was restored in 1938, a small coffin made of stone slabs was found.

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