Edsängens burial ground
The cemetery of Edsängens is a burial ground from the Viking Age (800-1050 AD) in Edsberg , northeast of Sollentuna in the Swedish province of Stockholm County and the historic province of Uppland . There are 125 monuments that make the burial ground one of the largest in the region.
description
The cemetery , measuring 200 × 90 to 140 m, lies between the Edsviken inlet and today's lake Norrviken , which was connected to the Baltic Sea during the Viking Age . The monuments consist of 109 round stone settings , 15 burial mounds and a Treudd . The mounds are between five and ten meters in diameter and the stone settings are between two and nine meters. Their heights are different. None of the graves has been archaeologically examined. This burial ground was probably already used during the earlier Iron Age (500 BC to 0).
- Edsängens burial ground
Nearby is the Sollentuna cemetery . In nearby Södersätra is the rune stone U 101, one of the Jarlabankestenarna (RAÄ-Nr. Sollentuna 74: 1).
literature
- Michel Kazanski: The Ancestors of the Vikings. In: Spectrum of Science. December 12, 2007, ISSN 0170-2971 , pp. 100-107.
Web links
- Grave field of Edsängens - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 26 ′ 57 ″ N , 17 ° 57 ′ 18 ″ E