Kvassheim burial ground
Coordinates: 58 ° 40 ′ 2 ″ N , 5 ° 33 ′ 3 ″ E
| Kvassheim burial ground | ||
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| location | Norway | |
| Location | Ha | |
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| When |
Germanic Iron Age , beginning of the Viking Age from around 300 AD to 900 AD. |
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| Where | Hå , Jæren | |
The burial ground of Kvassheim , in Hå ( Norwegian Hå gravfelt ) , excavated in the 1950s, is a burial site at the old cemetery of Hå in Jæren in Norway that was used in the Iron Age and the beginning of the Viking Age (around 300 to 900 AD) . The cemetery is one of several on the beach of Kvassheim. About 600 graves have been recorded in the area. Most of them are roasts .
description
Between 300 and 900 AD, about 60 burial mounds were raised for at least 100 people. Most were built between 400 and 500. Many of them hold several graves. In rose no. 1, north of the Låve bridge, there were seven graves. The finds indicate that two thirds of the burials are women graves. The people buried in the Hå area must have belonged to the upper social classes who lived nearby.
The dead were buried in a stone box on the coarse gravel of the ground . Around this (not always in the middle) box, the hill was built from large rolling stones . Later the box and mound were covered with a layer of gravel. The mounds have different shapes and sizes. 28 are round, 22 are rectangular. Some are in the shape of a boat. There are two large Treodde in the northwest .
The finds
There were no remains of the dead in the Hå graves; only equipment, jewelry , weapons and clay pots were found. The weather has destroyed the tissue, the bones and wood artefacts in more than 1500 years. In women's graves there were buckles to which clothing was attached and beads . Many women had spindle whorls as grave goods. Some men were buried with a sword .
literature
- Grete Lillehammer: Død og grav: Gravskikk på Kvassheimfeltet, Hå i Rogaland, SW Norway 1996
Web links
- Hå - arkeologisk in the store norske leksikon (Norwegian)
- Site of the old cemetery at Hå