bronze cauldron

  1. Jovialis

    Roman bronze cauldron unearthed in central Norway burial cairn

    Sometime around 150-300 CE a person died at the place now called Gylland in the Gaula River valley, in southern Trøndelag county. After the body was cremated, the remains were laid in a bronze vessel. This was then covered or wrapped in birch bark before being buried under several hundred kilos...
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