Grøderøysa
Coordinates: 58 ° 59 ′ 35.5 " N , 5 ° 34 ′ 11.3" E
The Grøderøysa is a long Röse ( Norwegian Gravrøys , a stone mound grave ), west of Randaberg near Stavanger in the Rogaland Fylke in Norway .
The remote and difficult to access Grøderøysa, described as early as 1898, was the largest long roe in Rogaland with a length of 38.5 meters, width of 9.0 and height of 2.5 meters. The hill of about head-sized boulders had been dug in several places and in the middle of the stone slabs of a collapsed chamber could be seen.
In 1937 the Röse was restored. The rose was restored to its original proportions at this time and is now around 47.0 meters long, 13.0 meters wide and 2.3 meters high. On the west side there is a small opening that leads into the chamber via a narrow passage. But the corridor is too narrow to crawl into.
The cairn has never been dated and no finds are known, but compared to the burial mounds along the coast of Jæren , it is believed to date from the Iron Age (AD 400 to 800) and functioned as a collective grave .
Legend
There is a legend about a King Grøde who was buried in the hill. Usually such names have a background. The first part of “Grøderøysa” is the Old Norse “Grjot”, which means stone.
Nearby is the Mesolithic residential area of Vistehola .
literature
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .