Vätteryd burial ground
The Vätteryd (also Vetteryd) with two stone and 15 ship translations and 183 solitary stones from the iron , Vendel- and Viking time (about 550-900 n. Chr.) Lies directly on the Riksväg 23 , south of Sösdala in which Swedish province of Skåne län .
At the beginning of the 19th century, around 600 stones were still counted on one of the largest burial grounds in Scandinavia , today a third is missing. Similar to the burial grounds of Hjortahammar , Li and Lindholm Høje , with which it has some parallels, Vätteryd is a burial ground in which hardly any of the stone settings stand out. There are 15 more or less well-preserved ship settlements as well as a square (with post marks of a superstructure) and a triangle, while circles are missing.
The cemetery was excavated between 1955 and 1957. Most of the burials were cremation graves . The rich grave goods (bronze and glass beads, bronzes, spindle whorls , ceramics, but also silver wire and silver ribbons) are kept in the Stockholm Museum.
Nearby is the Häglinge burial ground .
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen : Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ) p. 245
Web links
- Vätteryd cemetery - entry in the "Fornsök" database of the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Länsstyrelsen i Skåne län: Vätteryds gravfalt, Hässleholms kommun.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mårten Stenberger : Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 , p. 432.
Coordinates: 56 ° 0 ′ 58.8 ″ N , 13 ° 40 ′ 2.1 ″ E