Hundreds of visigothic slate stones (whiteboards) in Western Castilla (Spain

[Ingemar Nordgren]

Hi,

The Scandinavian burials typically are cremation graves surrounded by stone circles or covered by howes. Periodically also skeleton burials in howes and the noble ones with arms. Many flatmark graves. Around BC there are flatmarkgraves  with urns, burnt bones  in and outside urns and burnt bones in a hole simply and no weapons. This habit starts a little later in Poland before the skeleton burials appear and the urns are similar to the Scandinavian from earlier better ware and weapons. It also is usual to rise stones without inscriptions and with circles of standing stones. Later we get runestones beginning about the 6th c. and accelerating. Those celto-roman stelae are only on Gotland and are made from flat stones with graved patterns. They did not take that grave custom to Spain and  remember they then were Arians.


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> For example this is a rare stelae found in that old celtic-visigothic
> village:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/3/75048822.jpg/
> At the top of it it looks like there is a celtic "triskel".

This answers perfectly to the Gotlandic stones.

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> So, is there any burial art in Sweden that is completely Scandinavian (and not celtic)?. Do you have any images of it?.

Try this link: http://www.guteinfo.com/?id=1275


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> BTW, does anybody knows what could be this stone with those 6 archs?:
> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/810/78214663.jpg/

To me it looks Roman.

Best
Ingemar

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> --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, Tore Gannholm <tore@> wrote:
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> > The Gotlanders had wide trading connections
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> > The Gold Ring from Havor and the great silver kettle from Gundestrup
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> > It was in 1961 as one of the most remarkable archaeological finds, ever found in the Baltic area, came to light in the Havor ancient castle-fort in the south of Gotland. But not only is this find scientifically important, but it was also a genuine fairy-treasure of everything that one associates with it. The large bronze vessel, with its richly ornate fittings covered with a flat stone, under which there was a huge, richly decorated ring of shiny gold.
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