The interpretation of Late Iron Age burial mounds often focuses exclusively on the discovered contents, the social identity or role of the interred and the economic and political implications that can be extracted. This article considers the mound itself as a basis for archaeological interpretation, and attempts to place substantial late Iron Age burial mounds within the landscape they are made of. Within these burial mounds internal references to time, place and the transformations and imbued associations within the earth-sourced materials are purposeful and significant. This is illustrated via comparable examples from southern Norway, and to add contrast, cases from the Viking Age Isle of Man will be explored. This article will outline why the selected mounds should be seen as closely related to each other in the references they contain, and how the materials used can be seen as a purposeful link to the land itself.

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什么造就了土墩？铁器时代晚期墓葬中的地球来源材料

对铁器时代晚期墓葬的解释通常只关注发现的内容、埋葬者的社会身份或角色以及可以提取的经济和政治影响。本文将土丘本身视为考古解释的基础，并试图将大量晚期铁器时代的土丘置于构成它们的景观中。在这些墓葬中，对时间、地点和地球来源材料中的变化和灌输关联的内部参考是有目的的和重要的。这通过挪威南部的可比示例进行了说明，为了增加对比，将探讨维京时代马恩岛的案例。本文将概述为什么在它们所包含的参考文献中应将所选土堆视为彼此密切相关的原因，