Ii. The Investigation: Dendrochronological Dating of Bronze Age Oak Coffins
Ii. The Investigation: Dendrochronological Dating of Bronze Age Oak Coffins
Ii. The Investigation: Dendrochronological Dating of Bronze Age Oak Coffins
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secondly, to carry out as precise a dendrochronological dating of these as possible. By way of introduction,
an overview is given of the background for the investigation, its execution and the results obtained. In the
subsequent catalogue a detailed account is given of
the identity and investigation of each individual oak
coffin.
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introduction to the Catalogue, Section A, Addendum 23. Due to the advanced state of this study,
this coffin has not been included in the overviews
of, among other things, the number of dated and
undated coffins and the coffins geographical distribution given below.
Fig. 1. Location of the 22 burial mounds with preserved oak coffins that have been investigated dendrochronologically. The numbers refer to
section A of the catalogue.