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The Viking ship burial found at L'lle de Groix in 1906 is well known for it's unique shield bosses. Although mentioned in many books I found it difficult to find our more about the other objests found along side the shield bosses. This article aims to resolve this. <br><br>In 1940 Shetelig's 'Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume IV' [BJORN and SHETELIG 1940] summarised the original french 1908 journal report. [CHATELLIER and PONTOIS 1908:p.137-232]. It is the authors intention to try and marry these Bjorna and Shetelig's summaries with the images from the original 1908 French journal article. Where more information has been gained since the 1940's this has been added after the 1940's summary.
|width="600pt"| '''Circular iron mounting'''
Fragment of a circular iron mounting, 7.6cms. wide, possibly for the edge of a small bucket or a cup.
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==Other==
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|width="600pt"| '''Iron and copper alloy fragments'''
A considerable number of indeterminable iron fragments and bits of bronze from destroyed objects, mountings on chests and caskets etc..
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|width="600pt"| '''Over 800 clincher rivets'''
More than 800 clincher rivets, the original number certainly having exceeded a thousand, and some 200 nails, beside many fragments. The majority of both kinds have certainly come from a Viking ship cremated on the pyre. But part of the rivets are surprisingly small and suggest that one or more boats followed the ship, as was the case in the Gokstad burial.
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|width="600pt"| '''Cremated bones'''
Cremated bones. According to the expert examination there are fragments of skull and vertebrae which indicate a person of mature age, while a fragment of a long bone seems to belong to an individual not yet adult. Beside the human remains, bones of dog and of some small birds were recognised.
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BJORN1940
duCHATELLIER1908
PRICE1989
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