Hjortahammar burial ground
The burial ground at Hjortahammar in Sweden was documented from the Iron Age to the early Viking Age . It is located in the Blekinge Lan province on a pasture west of Karlskrona on a narrow headland, next to the road to Hasslö .
With around 120 stone settings and monuments, the cemetery of Hjortahammar is one of the largest cemeteries in Scandinavia . In contrast to other fields, where the graves are grouped around a central monument, Hjortahammar is a site on which individual monuments are not out of the ordinary. The range of monuments common in Northern Europe can be found - with the exception of the large burial mound . Building stones , and triangular stone settings ( Treuddar ), both with and without center stone, quadrangles, and stone circles ( Domarrings ). Among the ship's settlements , one made of relatively low, rounded stones has a particularly high fore and a slightly lower stern post and a high mast stone.
Excavations have been carried out in Hjortahammar since the early 19th century. It turned out to be cremation graves , a custom that ended around 850 AD. Around this time burial began to prevail again. The grave goods found (pottery, jewelry) consequently date from the late Iron Age and go back to the early Viking Age .
- Hjortahammar burial ground
drawing
View of the burial ground
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ) p. 227
Web links
- Cemetery of Hjortahammar - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 56 ° 10 ′ 6.6 ″ N , 15 ° 27 ′ 40 ″ E