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SHIP SETTINGS
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About 2,000 ship settings have been found in Scandinavia, most of them
in Sweden. The majority were raised during the Vendel and Viking ages.
About 35 date back to the Bronze Age.
This ship setting is part of
a grave field called Tofta Högar, used from the Bronze
Age through the Late Iron Age. Found underthe ship setting was stone chest
with an urn from the Bronze Age, partly overbuilt with a later grave
from the Vendel Era. The grave field is located on the Bjäre Peninsula
in the
northwestern part of Skåne.
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