Treetrunk coffin

For Bronze Age Britain, examples have been recorded at Wydon Eals, near Haltwhistle, and at Cartington (formerly County Durham, now Northumberland)[2] as well as in Scotland, Yorkshire, East Anglia, and Hampshire.

An example from Yorkshire is the "Gristhorpe Man",[3] a well-preserved human of the second millennium BCE, who was found on 10 July 1834 under an ancient burial mound, buried in a hollow oak tree trunk and conserved at the Rotunda Museum, Scarborough.

The coffin was maded of a pine trunk, buried inside a tumulus and contained the human remains of an adult, dated 1016-1169 CE El Museo Canario The hollow log coffin (also known as memorial poles, lorrkkon, ḻarrakitj, or ḏupun) has been used in burials of Yolngu and Bininj peoples of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia for millennia.

[6][7] The poles are painted with elaborate and intricate designs, which relate to the deceased's clan, and are believed to help guide the soul to its home, where spirits and ancestors would then recognise it.

In Yanjinggou Developing Zone of Chengdu such a "boat burial" in a hollowed-out treetrunk found in 2006 was dated to the Warring States Era (475–221 BCE); it contained copper objects, bronze weapons, pottery and lacquer wares, seeds and peach pits.