DIEREN ALS GRAFGIFTEN OP VROEGMIDDELEEUWSE BRANDSTAPELS IN DE TERPEN
Samenvatting
Animais or parts of animals were among the grave goods put on early medieval funeral pyres in the northern coastal area of the Netherlands. Cattle, sheep or goat, pig, roe deer, little and/or Temminck's stint, dunlin, teal, mallard and chicken have been identified so far. Part of the material represented fleshy body parts, presumably remains of joints of meat offered to the deceased. Other parts were probably remains of hides in which bodies were transported to the pyres or on which they rested while being cremated. A comparison is made with funerary practices in Anglo-Saxon England and 6th- to 11th-century central Sweden.
