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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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The graves are raised stones which are shaped as the lines of Viking long-boats.
Standing stones, crusaders' graves and hut circles on Moulin Moor still remain for visitors to see today.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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These two graves are in a plot surrounded by stone and covered with white marble tiles.
The unknown graves are marked with marble stones about six inches square and six inches above ground.
Often the grave was delineated by stones arranged in the shape of a ship.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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There are NO cemetery stones marking any of the graves, a list of the cemetery occupants is located at the Collins Historical Society.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Excavation The graves at Kurma XI are easily identifiable because they are visible on the ground surface as clusters of flat paving stones.
The grave stones indicated that the Jewish community had a number of members so prosperous they could pay for gravestones and inscriptions, which were in Hebrew script.
These graves were of the open pit type, dug out of the lower desert with stone and wooden tools.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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The graves are empty and the stones are believed to be memorials to Vikings who never returned home from their trips.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Mainly those are cemeteries with graves build from small wooden boxes surrounded by stones.
Although 26 graves were noted marked with field stones, probably many more have been covered or destroyed by time and erosion.
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