Bollstad - Skeppsättning och gravfält

The site was used as a burial ground during the Late Iron Age (500-1050 AD). The dead were burned at the stake along with some grave goods. The gifts could be clothes, jewellery, tools and weapons. There are also examples of bringing a dog or some other animal into the grave. The grave was then built on top of the remains of the funeral pyre. Sometimes the ashes were collected in a ceramic vessel that was buried. At the edge of the burial field with burial mounds, there is a shipwreck. The grave is from the same time as the other graves but has the shape of a ship.

Text from In the footsteps of the archaeologist, Småland museum