--- In cybalist@..., "Alexander Stolbov" <astolbov@...> wrote:
> I'm afraid we hardly could seriously discuss the probability of
presence any
> East-Iranian group in Scandinavia without horse burials. They
belong to the
> most typical and reliably attributable marks of Iron Age nomadic
Iranians
> (and Turks too, anyway steppe groups).
>
> Do you remember dating of those burials? Decorations style?
>
> Alexander
I found a reference to one paper on Iron Age horse burials in
Södermanland and Uppland here:
http://www.hgo.se/nordark/sspa8190.pdf
Wigh Bengt, Gravar med häst och nöt från järnålern. En studie av fynd
och djursammansättning i järnåldersgravarna med häst och nöt i
Södermanland och Uppland.
A sudy of grave furniture and faunal assemblages in iron Age burials
containing horse and cattlebones in Södermanland and Uppland 47pp.
Stockholm 1989.
The finnestorp findings I talked about was about 1500 years old (from
memory from the news shows) and there was found a horse bridle, which
according to the earliest comments was supposed to have one of Odin's
ravenson it and be an ideal parallell to a raven-find in Högom
outside Sundsvall. As the later debate showed this seems to be a
great over-interpretation of the finder. In my opinion there is an
sort of ornamet of some sort on the bridle, but if it is a raven or
not I really can't say.
Bones from a horse were also found. Anyway, here are some links:
http://home9.swipnet.se/~w-92280/
http://w1.403.telia.com/~u40305830/fastaknappar/forskning/forskning12.
html
The högom finds are here:
http://www.umu.se/arke/hogom.html
but the bridle in Finnestorp was quite different from the one in the
picture Högom, so don judge it by that picture.
Best wishes
Anders