Westland basin from Lunde

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The Westland boiler from Lunde, discovered in 2004 in the parish of Tuna in the Swedish municipality of Sundsvall ( location coordinates: 62 ° 20 ′ 14.9 ″  N , 17 ° 2 ′ 3 ″  E ) belongs to a group of copper-alloyed vessels of Roman production, which were initially particularly popular in the Norwegian Vestlandet were found. The kettles are divided into the groups "Hauken 1" and "Hauken 2" (younger).

The tinned copper piece can be dated to the late Roman Iron Age around 300 AD. The contents of the kettle made of earth and whitish-gray lumps were examined in 2005 after an archaeological dig. The investigation showed that the kettle served as an urn . In addition to bear claws and a lynx claw, fragments of a comb , iron rivets, melted glass and burned bones (adult man, dog, horse, sheep / goat, bird) could be identified. Westland boilers were also discovered in an arm of the old Rhine near the Palatinate town of Neupotz and in Kragehul on Fyn in Denmark.

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