Byxelkrok burial ground
The Viking Age (800-1050 AD) burial ground of Byxelkrok, measuring 150 by 30 meters, is located near the town of Byxelkrok on the northern tip of the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Öland, south of the nature reserve " Neptuni åkrar " ( German "Neptune's fields" ). It is the northernmost burial ground in Öland.
The burial ground lies in the rubble banks above the coastline. There are 32 small round boulder pile , nine stone boxes , twelve Rösen , a Treudd , a stone monument and the remains of the stone ship "Forgallaskeppet". The stone ship is difficult to see because it is made of low limestone slabs . In 1935 eight graves were examined. Among them was a rich women's grave. They discovered a clasp with a bronze chain , a pair of oval buckled clasps, an iron knife stuck in the remains of a bronze-covered leather scabbard, a glass bead , a bone needle-barrel and iron scissors.
To the south of the burial ground is the stone Höga flisa .
literature
- Markus Forslund: Nature and culture on Öland . Länsstyrelsen Kalmar län, Halmstad 2001, ISBN 91-973802-4-5
Web links
- Cemetery of Byxelkrok - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Information from Ölands Folkhögskola on Forgallaskeppet
Coordinates: 57 ° 20 ′ 31.3 " N , 17 ° 1 ′ 6.9" E