Tag: burial
More and more burial plots are getting urn walls and memorial groves – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio
The urn wall in the cemetery at Sola old church forms a semicircle. When it opens in August, it will be Rogaland’s first, and Norway’s second urn wall. – There…
The National Antiquities preserves the Finnish forest burial islet Akkasaari/Kjerringholmen in Grue – news Innlandet – Local news, TV and radio
On a lake about a hundred meters from the Swedish border in Grue Finnskog we find the islet of Akkasaari. At the top of the islet are three pits. Here…
Burial in the church didn’t feel right
– We could well imagine an open-minded funeral, says Katrine Bragdø from Mandal in Lindesnes municipality. An alternative burial became relevant when the son Theodor (21) died a year and…
Excavation at Sem – discovery of special burial site and bone remains – news Oslo og Viken – Local news, TV and radio
– You can see the grin on his face, says the cheerful excavation leader Christian Løchsen Rødsrud. He points down into a pit. There, earth is poked and scraped away…
Municipality damaged burial mound during school construction – must rebuild it – news Trøndelag
For close to 1,500 years, the large burial mound has been there as a memory of an important person at Hunn in Trøndelag. In an area with many burial mounds…