Treetrunk coffin
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A treetrunk coffin is a coffin hollowed out of a single massive log. Such coffins have been used for burials since prehistoric times over a wide geographic range, including in Europe, Africa, Asia and
Treetrunk coffin from the early mediaeval graveyard of Oberflacht, Germany
Treetrunk coffin from the Egtved Girl
Reconstruction of the place of two treetrunk coffins at the Archäologischer Wanderpfad in der Fischbeker Heide, Neugraben-Fischbek
Memorial poles at the National Gallery of Australia
Gristhorpe Man
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The remains of Gristhorpe Man were found buried in a coffin in Gristhorpe, North Yorkshire, England. They have been identified as a Bronze Age warrior chieftain. A few other examples of burial in a sc
Treetrunk coffin
…conserved at a specialist facility of York Archaeology in York, with the help of a £70,000 grant from Historic England. An example from Yorkshire is the "Gristhorpe Man", a well-preserved human of the second millennium BCE, who was found on 10 July 1834 under an ancient burial mound, buried in a hollow oak tree trunk…
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