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    The document discusses the burial site of Við Kirkjugarð and methods that can be used to date it. Radiocarbon dating of animal bones found in an ash layer from 1990 could provide dates. Dates may also come directly from skeletal remains if suitable for carbon dating. Grave goods were found in some graves, and while they generally indicate heathen burial customs, distinctions must be made between regular tools and personal items or clothing. Christianity led to abandoning burying the dead with any items, but this transition was gradual with local variations across Northern Europe.

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    Símun V. Arge and Niels Hartmann A Viking Age Cemetery in the Faroes

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    The document discusses the burial site of Við Kirkjugarð and methods that can be used to date it. Radiocarbon dating of animal bones found in an ash layer from 1990 could provide dates. Dates may also come directly from skeletal remains if suitable for carbon dating. Grave goods were found in some graves, and while they generally indicate heathen burial customs, distinctions must be made between regular tools and personal items or clothing. Christianity led to abandoning burying the dead with any items, but this transition was gradual with local variations across Northern Europe.

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    The Burial Site of Vid Kirkjugarð in The Village of Sandur, Sandoy 14

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    THE BURIAL SITE OF VI KIRKJUGAR

    Fig. 15. Some of the graves excavated at Tjrnuvk. Photo: S. Dahl 1959.

    establishes a termini post quem for Grave K5A, and is not of importance as such, for the dating of the site as a whole. One of the relative dating methods available to us, is the radiocarbon dating of animal bone samples recovered from an ash layer excavated in 1990. The ash layer lies west of the burials, and is possibly affiliated with a layer, likewise of ash, found within the actual burial site and cut by Grave J6B. Alternatively, dates could be obtained directly from the skeletal material, if this is found suited for C-14 dating. As described above, grave-goods were recovered from a number of the graves. On

    the whole, grave-goods are commonly seen as indicating heathen burial custom. However, it is important in this respect that we distinguish between on the one hand regular grave-goods such as tools, weapons and household utensils and on the other hand items of a more personal nature and those belonging to the buried person's dress. Wherever Christianity was adopted, the custom of burying the dead with items of any kind, was gradually abandoned. However, emphasis must be placed on the word gradually, as local variations occured in different parts of Northern Europe with transitional periods combining heathen and

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