You can find ship settings around the Baltic Sea, in Scandinavian and Baltic states but also in Northern Germany. They are usually from the latter part of the Nordic Bronze Age, or from the Germanic Iron Age, the Vendel Age and the Viking Age.
A grave or cremation burial is surrounded by slabs or stones in the outline of a ship. Inside, they can be cobbled or filled with stones, or have raised stones in the positions of masts. The illusion of being ships has often been reinforced by larger stones at the ends, some of the ships were enclosed with barrows.
This ships show us, that the people who erected them thought that the place(s) were the dead have to go, can reached by boat. (I think the conceptions of afterlife were a little bit more complicated than the viking mythologies in the Eddas tell us.)
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