Amundtorp burial ground
The Amundtorp burial ground (Norra Lundby 62: 1) is located south of Varnhem and on the west side of Mount Billingen , on the hill Biskopskullen in the province of Västergötland in Sweden . In the 18th century the cemetery was still called Hözüge.
The 140 m long and 45 to 25 m wide cemetery dates from the younger Iron Age (around 400–650 AD). The dead were usually cremated at this time. The bones and the burnt additions ended up in urns .
There are eight more visible structures on the burial ground , including a roe , a 24 m long ship setting , several domar rings ( German: "judge rings" ), two angular stone settings and a rune stone . In 1938 two of the graves were examined. Inside the square stone setting was a pit with black earth, scattered corpse fire, two bronze needles and various glass beads as well as two combs from the Germanic Iron Age (400-550 AD), which belonged to a woman's grave.
Nearby is Lilla Lycke's burial ground .
Web links
- Amundtorp cemetery - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Aerial view
- Description and pictures
- Description Engl. and picture
Coordinates: 58 ° 21 '59.6 " N , 13 ° 38' 2.7" E