- Excavations at Huldahóll resulted in the recovery of additional fragments of cremated human bone.
- This is an important discovery because it provides the first evidence that the early settlers of Iceland practiced cremation. These bones were found together with cremated animal bones, wood ash, charcoal, and fragments of metal artifacts.
- These remains are in a mound that is partially of human construction. A radiocarbon date on a charred twig associated with these remains indicates that the cremated bones likely date to the tenth century.
- The mound in which the cremated human remains were found is about 40 meters from a second mound called Kirkjuhóll.
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Burned human bone from the Hulduhóll cremation grave
Test excavations at the Hulduhóll burial mound
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