Folkeslunda burial ground
The Folkeslunda Cemetery is a cemetery in the village of Folkeslunda on the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea .
The cemetery is located directly on the island's east coast road. It became particularly famous for the Wälters sten , an unusually large and uniform grave sphere . With a weight of nine tons, the sphere created in a glacier mill is the largest grave sphere in Sweden. It is popularly nicknamed Kroppkakor , after the potato dumplings of the same name, an Öland national dish. The grave sphere is surrounded by a 40 meter flat stone circle.
A thorough investigation of the facility took place between 1968 and 1973. A total of 160 graves were examined, 130 of them between 1969 and 1973. The remains of a woman and a large number of children's skeletons were found in the grave under the grave ball. The finds range from the late Bronze Age to the late Viking Age (800–1050 AD).
literature
- Andreas Hassler, Sweden Handbook , Edgar Hoff Verlag Rappweiler 2001, ISBN 3-923716-10-9 , page 267
Web links
- Folkeslunda cemetery - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 56 ° 43 ′ 41.5 ″ N , 16 ° 43 ′ 10.3 ″ E