Grave field near Vitemölla

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Grave field near Vitemölla

The cemetery at Vitemölla (also called Råkefuret ), measuring around 70 × 50 m , dates from the late Iron Age . The cemetery , excavated in the 1950s, is located in a wood on road no. 9 from Vitemölla to Brösarp in Skåne in Sweden . It consists of 13 building stones , two stone circles and a ship setting .

  • The originally 26.0 m long and 8.0 m wide ship setting is missing several stones in the southern part. The rest consists of 9 to 10 stones 0.3 to 1.4 m high.
  • The stone circles have a diameter of 8.0 to 9.0 m and consist of four or five horizontal stones 0.3 to 0.7 m high and 1.0 to 1.4 m wide. In a circle is a stone 0.8 m high, 1.0 m wide and 0.5 m thick.
  • Six of the 13 building blocks are still standing. They are 0.7 to 1.7 m high, 0.7 to 1.0 m wide and 0.4 to 0.5 m thick. One is strongly inclined. The two stones on the stile were placed here in 1959 after road works were completed.

During an archaeological investigation in 2017, an approximately 150 m long trench was dug, which ran about 30 m over the burial ground and further to the southeast. In the trench there was a pit and a few post pits ( Stolphål in Swedish ). In the pit lay prehistoric pottery and in a post pit a flint and a shard of prehistoric pottery.

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Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 25.1 ″  N , 14 ° 10 ′ 39 ″  E