Building stones from Erland
The building stones from Erland ( Norwegian Bautasteinene på Erland ) are on the eponymous courtyard, west of Skjoldastraumen near Haugesund in the Rogaland Fylke in Norway .
On the farm there are seven building stones arranged in the shape of a plow from the Scandinavian Iron Age . The area is full of burial mounds, hills named after gods, a cave with archaeological finds. The seven stones form a very rare collection. Building stones are usually alone or in pairs in connection with graves. Erland may have been around as early as the early Iron Age, around 500 BC. A religious meeting place.
Nearby are the Resastaven and the building stones from Grinde .
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Coordinates: 59 ° 26 ′ 20.7 " N , 5 ° 36 ′ 15.1" E