horse burial

Iron Age horse burial - discovered on the same day as the hoard of coins.

Actual horse burials in England are relatively rare and "may point to influence from the continent".

Two horse burials indicate the importance of the horse in other respects.

Some tombs include horse burials and one tomb had especially lavish furnishings.

Romans have also left a horse burial.

An instance of a person being buried with their horse (without the chariot) is called horse burial.

Of the six-hundred graves excavated forty of them are horse burials.

Often horses are sacrificed in a funerary context, and interred with the deceased, a practice called horse burial.

Considerable differences exist between different horse burials even within a single area and culture, so much so that it is perhaps impossible to generalize.

Examination of the archaeological record in Norway has revealed some patterns that are comparable to horse burials in other areas.

This process of horse burial is part of a wider tradition of horse sacrifice.

Rich pagan Franks were buried with movable wealth in graves surrounded by horse burials.

Horse burials are relatively widespread in Iceland; as of 1999, 115 graves were found that contained the remains of horses.

Further, Childeric's grave was apparently forgotten about; the horse burials which surrounded it were already cut into in the sixth century by secondary inhumations.

Horse burials are well-known from Ancient China as well, beginning with the Shang Dynasty.

The remains of several prehistoric sacrificial horse burials have been found along its banks, mainly concentrated around the town of Ayr.

An excavation was conducted on the already disturbed burial site, which unearthed 35 human burials and the horse burial, containing the three horses.

Horse burials are found in both Norway and Iceland to occur more frequently with males, but are not exclusive to males.

There are numerous references to the horses of warriors in literature and graves with horse burials are known in the early Anglo-Saxon period.

Horse burial is a custom that Gandharan grave culture has in common with Andronovo, though not within the distinctive timber-frame graves of the steppe.

That the place was populous already is borne out by archeological evidence, which includes 23 graves and six horse burials from the sixth and seventh centuries.

Sites featuring horse burials are found throughout the regions of the world occupied by Indo-Aryan, Turkic, and Chinese peoples.

Horse burials are part of the Pazyryk burials, where lavishly decked-out horses were killed and sometimes buried in chambers separate from those containing human remains.

Most pieces were found in unrecorded contexts, but one example of a Luristan horse burial is known; it is unclear if it was from the same period.

The archaeological findings seem related to those of the Dnieper-Donets culture, with the noteworthy exception of horse burials, the earliest in the Old World.