Hunn burial ground
 
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Hunn burial ground in the Norwegian province of Viken . |
The large burial ground of Hunn ( Norwegian Hunnfeltene ) in Borge is located northeast of road 110 in Fredrikstad Municipality in Fylke Viken in Norway about six kilometers east of the city center.
The well-preserved burial ground has around 145 burial mounds , building stones and four stone circles with nine to 13 stones in the forest east of Hunn-gårdene. It was discovered accidentally and excavated between 1908 and 1910, and between 1950 and 1953. In addition to the prehistoric monuments, rich grave finds were made, from the Roman Iron Age to the earlier Viking Age (around 800 AD). The oldest burial mound dates from the Bronze Age . The traces of living space and fields come from the late Stone and Bronze Ages. To the north of the burial ground are the Iron Age fortifications Ravnefjellet / Ravnetoppen and the old village of Borge. In the 1970s, another excavation was made in Hunn.
The stone circle field
The separate stone circle field of Hunn is one of the largest in Norway. There are a total of nine stone circles, several cairns and round stone patterns in the ground. The number of stones per circle is 12, 13 or 15.
In Scandinavia it was assumed that the stone circles were thing places or judges' rings in which court hearings took place. Archaeological studies have shown that these are graves that were often found within the districts. Nothing was found in the graves except pieces of charcoal and burned bones.
Road 110 between Skjeberg and Fredrikstad is called "Oldtidsruta" because of the many old monuments.
Magnus Bernhard Olsen (1878–1963), an expert on old place names, wrote in 1926 in Ættegård og helligdom: norske stedsnavn sosialt og religionshistorisk belyst about the unknown place names Dynna, Hoy and Hunn (Hunndalen) that all three were apparently used as river names before they became place names.
literature
- Heid Gjøstein Resi: Gravplassen Hunn i Østfold . 1986, ISBN 82-7181-052-9 , Finn boken.
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Coordinates: 59 ° 13 ′ 14.2 " N , 11 ° 4 ′ 14.9" E