Glottrast
The Glottrasten is the largest building stone in the Närke province in Sweden . It is in the parish of Svennevad near Hallsberg , near the Norra Glottra school, less than 100 m from Riksvägen 51 between Örebro and Norrköping .
The menhir was erected during the Bronze or Iron Age . Around the Glottrastenen are 18 small Iron Age stone circles and a square stone setting. In the immediate vicinity there is a cemetery with stone loops from the same period.
A few kilometers southwest of Glottra, near Haddebo, is the Svenders stone , a slightly smaller menhir. The Glottrasten is said to be the gravestone of a Queen Glottra, while Svender's stone is named after a King Svender, neither of which is historically proven. At the lake Glottrasjön there is a stone circle about 7.0 m in diameter.
See also
Web links
- Glottrasten - entry in the database "Fornsök" of the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description (swedish)
Coordinates: 58 ° 58 ′ 26 ″ N , 15 ° 24 ′ 38.1 ″ E