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Celtic Burials

Celtic Burials. Burial Mounds. Kilchberg First burial Second Burial Knowth & Newgrange Boyne River. Google Earth image of the Knowth burial mound overlooking the Boyne river. Google Earth image of the Newgrange Burial mound overlooking the Boyne river. There

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Celtic Burials

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  1. Celtic Burials

  2. Burial Mounds • Kilchberg • First burial • Second Burial • Knowth & Newgrange • Boyne River

  3. Google Earth image of the Knowth burial mound overlooking the Boyne river. Google Earth image of the Newgrange Burial mound overlooking the Boyne river. There is several other small mounds near it.

  4. Hochdorf burial mound

  5. Hochdorf burial mound • Chief • Gold items • Germany

  6. Grave Goods • Men • Weapons • Gold Items • Servants and Companion animals These grave goods are found in the Hochdorf burial mound

  7. Birdlip mirror that was placed in wealthy graves • Women • Jewelry • Vix Torque • Mirrors • Birdlip mirror Vix Torque

  8. Special Practices • Regional and Temporal • Beaker- Barrows/mounds • Urnfield- Cremation • Unknown- Invisible Funerary Rites

  9. Vampire burials • Own special burial barrow • Stones • Nails

  10. Belief in Afterlife • Entering other bodies • Island of Elysium • Night of All Saints • World beneath the crust

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