Brakelund burial ground
The Iron Age (400-550 AD) cemetery of Brakelund is located south of the gravel road between Lindärva and Hasslösa , northwest of Hasslösa southeast of Lidköping in Västra Götalands län in Sweden . It's the rest of a larger field. On the south side there is a disused gravel pit .
The burial ground contains twelve building stones , ten judges' rings with six to 15 stones, four ship sets , four boulders , two square and one rectangular stone setting and a burial mound. In the 1960s the field was still the site of a pine forest.
Nearby is the rune stone on Synnerby kyrka .
Web links
- Brakelund cemetery - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description, sketch and picture (Swedish)
- Description (Swedish)
Coordinates: 58 ° 26 ′ 7.4 " N , 13 ° 15 ′ 33.1" E