Gålrum burial ground
The Gålrum burial ground is on the road from Lausbackar to the north near Alskog , in the east of the Swedish Baltic Sea island of Gotland . The over 100 archaeological monuments there, together with other prehistoric monuments in neighboring Ljugarn, form one of the largest collections of megalithic evidence on the island.
In total there are 122 monuments on the burial ground , mostly in groups. There are five loops , 110 round stone settings and eight ship settings . Most of the burial ground, which measures 385 × 150 m in a northeast-southwest orientation, lies west of the road. Only about 20 monuments are east of the road. Most of them are from the Iron Age , the "Big Rose" (Digerrojr) with a height of about 4.0 meters and a diameter of 30 meters is from the Bronze Age , but Bronze Age finds have also been made on the ships' settlements.
Otherwise there are:
- short with about ten meters long, but from large boulders erected stone ships
- Stone accumulations from shallow graves
- the foundation walls of Visnar Ängar
At the northeastern edge of the burial ground is a very faded picture stone from Alskog (Gotland's runinskrifter 109).
The place was from around 1500 BC. Used until the turn of the century .
See also
Web links
- Cemetery of Gålrum - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- The Gålrum cemetery on Grosssteingraeber.de
- Shots at Digerrojr swed, and pictures
Coordinates: 57 ° 19 ′ 44.8 " N , 18 ° 39 ′ 26.3" E