Jordbro burial ground
The cemetery of Jordbro ( Swedish Jordbro gravfalt ) is Scandinavia 's largest cemetery from the early Iron Age in the Mälardalen region . It is located just south of the urban area of Jordbro , in Haninge , south of Stockholm in Sweden .
The grave field, divided by a railway line, consists of over 300 building stones , 38 rectangular stone settings , 14 stone circles , three sunken paths , a ship settlement , a burial mound , a wheel grave and a few roosts . The small ship setting consists of stones barely protruding from the ground and a higher "mast stone" located in the middle of the ship.
The 100,000 m² grave field consists of around 660 objects. Most of them date from between 500 BC. AD 500 and AD 500, some older. The real size was discovered during archaeological research in the 1990s when the railway line was expanded to two tracks. But only an area eight meters wide and 220 meters long was excavated.
literature
- Karin Äijä, Agneta Lagerlöf: Gravar och fruktbarhetskult. In: Peter Bratt (Red.): Forntid i ny dager - Arkeologi i Stockholmstrakten. Raster, Stockholm 1998, ISBN 91-87214-82-2 , pp. 142-149.
Web links
- Jordbro cemetery - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description Swedish and pictures
Coordinates: 59 ° 7 ′ 55 " N , 18 ° 7 ′ 21.7" E