Cemetery of Ek

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The Ek burial ground at Övregården farm is located on a hill southwest of Timmele, north of Ulricehamn in the province of Västra Götalands län and the historic province of Västergötland in Sweden and consists of 25 monuments. 15 of them are stone circles and 10 stone mounds . Three of the graves were on a ridge southeast of the oak-covered burial ground from the Bronze Age (1700-500 BC). found.

Burned bones were found in the cathedral rings ( German:  "judges' rings" ) together with personal items such as dishes and jewelry.

In the Rösen large were stone boxes with skeletal remains or cremation burials with grave goods of tweezers or razors of bronze found. The cairns consist of head-sized pebbles . Some loops are 17 m in diameter. The smaller ones consist of rock with admixtures of peat. A rose is very flat and has a height of less than 10% of the diameter. One of the cairns is sunk in the middle (picture). It was used as a cellar in the 1930s.

Ek's stone chest

Entrances - the soul hole at the bottom left

Immediately south of the burial ground is a stone box ( Swedish: Hällkista - Timmele 136: 1) from the Neolithic or the early Bronze Age (2400–1000 BC). It is older than the burial ground.

The box was examined by Joseph Sand in 1908. He presumably removed the capstones for better access. The roughly trapezoidal, hardly damaged, 0.5 to 0.65 m deep box consists of an antenna-like antechamber and the main chamber, which is accessible via a soul hole . 12 bearing stones have been preserved in situ , and there are also five relocated stones. The soul hole was created by picking out two semicircles in adjacent plates.

Among the finds were flint daggers , arrowheads and slate pendants that date the box to the dagger era.

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Coordinates: 57 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 36 ″  E