Runnevåls burial ground
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The east-west oriented 200 × 150 m cemetery of Runnevåls is located southwest of Stora Kil in the north of Kil in Värmland in Sweden . It is one of the northernmost burial grounds in the country and consists of 91 monuments. 83 are burial mounds and eight are round stone settings .
The mounds are 0.6 to 2.3 m high and 7.0 to 18.0 m in diameter (normal are 10 to 15 m in diameter and 1.0 to 1.5 m in height). The 1.0 to 2.0 m wide and 0.1 to 0.4 m thick stones of the borders of 56 hills have been completely or partially preserved. Four hills have a small building stone in the middle or on the surface . 19 hills have a 0.5 to 4.0 m measuring 0.2 to 0.6 m deep pits in the middle. Four of them have 2 to 4 pits. Eight mounds have one or more pits in the sides. The stone settlements are 6.0 to 12.0 m in diameter and 0.2 to 0.4 m in height. There are two unsafe stone settings in the area.
literature
- Tore Artelius: Domarringar i västsverige - Kronologi och topografi. In: Riksantikvarieämbetet (Ed.): Arkeologi i Sverige. Ny följd 2. Fornminnesavdelningen - Riksantikvarieämbetet, Värnamo 1993, ISBN 91-7192-896-0 , pp. 39-54.
Web links
- Runnevåls cemetery - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 31 '15.3 " N , 13 ° 18'32.5" E