Hornåsen burial ground

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Hornåsen burial ground

The Hornåsen burial ground on the Os of Rytterne in Västerås is a few kilometers south of Borgåsund in Västmanland in Sweden .

At 515 × 20–70 m, the largest burial ground in Västmanland County is located on the Horn Ridge, with around 200 graves from the Bronze Age to the Late Iron Age . They consist of seven loops (one of them rectangular), two burial mounds , 187 round and one square stone setting, two ship setting , one Treudd and one building stone . The largest of the roosts is 2.3 m high and 14.0 m in diameter.

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Coordinates: 59 ° 29 ′ 54.4 "  N , 16 ° 16 ′ 50"  E