Grave orb

A grave orb is a petrosphere that was put on a person's tomb.

Grave orbs were made throughout Scandinavia from the Pre-Roman Iron Age until the Vendel era.

They were then put in the centre of a burial site.

Some grave orbs are engraved with ornaments, such as the orb at Inglinge hög or Barrow of Inglinge near Ingelstad in Småland, Sweden.

Hög is from the Old Norse word haugr meaning mound or barrow.