Angantyrs rojr
The Angantyrs rojr is a Roese on Gansviken in parish Grötlingbo near the southern tip of the Swedish island of Gotland . The namesake Angantyr cannot be clearly assigned. The cairn has a diameter of 29.0 and a height of 2.7 meters. This makes him one of the so-called Storröse; ten of these are particularly large specimens on Gotland.
The Röse was examined in 1826 by Nils Johan Ekdahl (1799–1870), who is responsible for the damage in the middle of the Röse and in the western area. In these areas, the rose has been removed to the ground. Ekdahl found a stone chest in the mound containing burned bones and a bronze dagger . The dagger could be dated to the older Bronze Age (1500–1000 BC). A damaged stone circle made of relatively large blocks runs around the cairn .
literature
- Erik Nylén : Gotlandic soil monuments , Gotlandskonst, Visby 1976, p. 28.
See also
Web links
- Angantyrs rojr - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 57 ° 7 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 18 ° 22 ′ 48 ″ E