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Figure 8: Excavated grave in the apse of the ‘north church’ at the cemetery near Sv. Marija (Čaušević 2003, fig. 7; Blečić
et al. 2006, by Morana Čaušević and Damir Krizmanić, adapted with permission by Martina Blečić Kavur, 2024) Death in Osor: Rituals and Practices of Prehistoric Burials

most interesting. Grave 6, as mentioned, was male individual from grave 6, suggesting a possi-
the richest grave, featuring characteristic grave ble familial relationship (Mladin 1960, 214–215,
goods of jewellery and attire associated with pl. IIA).
aristocratic female burials, such as a two-part Grave 5 is unique as it is the only example
spectacle fibula, Osor-type fibula, or fibula with so far of a so-called secondary burial recorded in
amber on the bow, along with numerous amber Osor graves (Mladin 1960, 221–222) (fig. 6–7).
beads, bracelets, rings, buttons and a ceramic In this grave, a primary male individual was bur-
spindle whorl (Mladin 1960, 222; Blečić Kavur ied in the eastern corner of the chest, followed
2010, tab. 40). These grave goods are similar to by a secondary female individual. Grave goods
those found in the grave at Mala Prepoved and included a large spectacle fibula under the head
closely resemble the grave goods of the deceased of the female deceased and a bow-shaped fibu-
(5.184) at the site of Sv. Petar. In close proximity, la with amber on the bow near her left shoul-
with an irregular northwest-southeast orienta- der, dating the secondary burial to the same pe-
tion, was grave 7, a small rectangular chest, like- riod as the woman from grave 6 and possibly
ly the burial of a younger person/child, with a the younger individual from grave 7, around the
bow-shaped fibula with amber on the bow (Mla- 9th and 8th centuries BCE (Blečić Kavur 2010,
din 1960, 222). A similar burial method is doc- 127–130).
umented at the site of Sv. Petar in grave 4.323. Besides these graves, which have already
It is interpreted in a closer context with the fe- been published for a long time, two addition-