Info Of Roman Bronze Cauldron Unearthed Inwards Cardinal Norway Burial Cairn

The cauldron has been uncovered, together with Heidi Fløttum Westgaard, Ellen Grav Ellingsen 

and Kjell André Brevik carefully construct clean it off. 

Photo: Astrid Kviseth / NTNU University Museum

“Vessels similar these were imported from the Roman Empire together with confirm that this was an expanse of condition together with wealth during Roman times,” says archeologist Merete Moe Henriksen.

Sometime or hence 150-300 CE a someone died at the house instantly called Gylland inwards the Gaula River valley, inwards southern Trøndelag county. After the trunk was cremated, the remains were seat inwards a bronze vessel. This was hence covered or wrapped inwards birch bark earlier beingness buried nether several hundred kilos of stone.

And in that location it stayed – until this summer, when archaeologists from the NTNU University Museum lifted a stone slab together with nigh lost their breath from excitement when they saw what lay below it.

“We’d gone over the location amongst the metallic detector, together with hence nosotros knew that in that location was something nether i of the stone slabs inwards the burial cairn,” says archeologist Ellen Grav Ellingsen, who filmed the regain amongst her cellular telephone when the stone was lifted away.

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