Brillinge stone

The Brillinge Stone ( Swedish Brillingestenen ) or "Brillinge Altar", as it is called in an old inventory list, is a bowl stone of unknown time in the north of the Swedish city ​​of Uppsala . It is a so-called sacrificial stone in Sweden because of the bowls , with over a hundred bowls ( Swedish Älvkvarnar - elf mills) 3 to 7 cm in diameter and 0.5 to 2.5 cm deep on the flat top. It takes its name from the Brillinge farm on whose land it stands.

There is also a small burial ground to the southwest of the stone, which caused quite a stir when a farmer discovered the first grave in the 1930s. It was a so-called skeleton grave in which the dead person was buried in a coffin. The tomb was dated from 0 to 200 AD in the Iron Age . It was actually common practice during this time to cremate the dead. Skeleton graves from this period have only been found in a few places in the southern parts of Sweden.

Web links

• Brillinge stone - entry in the database "Fornsök" of the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
• Description Swedish and pictures

Coordinates: 59 ° 53 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 17 ° 39 ′ 59.2 ″  E