Hästevad's stenar
The Hästevads stenar ( German "Stones of Hästevad" ) are a Domarring on the eastern outskirts of Vargön in the municipality of Vänersborg in Västergötland in Sweden . The stone circle to the north of the railway line is the remainder of the Hästevad burial ground, which was destroyed when the railway was built in the 19th century. The Hästevads stenar stand below the Hallebergs fornborg , the largest prehistoric castle in Scandinavia and its impressive death rock (Ättestupan). The place was already known in the 1660s by Erik Dahlberg's "Suecia antiqua et hodierna" and in 1746 by Carl von Linné's saying "Ättestöttan är en Valhall" ("The death rock is a Valhalla ").
During the previous archaeological investigation, an Iron Age burial ground with 20 flat graves and urns made of clay and boxes made of birch bark , which were sealed with resin , were found.
The eight stones of the circle do not consist of round boulders, as we know them from the Swedish Bronze Age , but of flat, high limestone slabs , similar to those on the large burial grounds of the Iron Age in Grebbestad or on the burial ground of Li near Fjärås, where they are, however, called so-called building stones were erected. One of the stones bears an inscription that commemorates the visit of King Adolf Friedrich and Queen Luise Ulrike in 1754, when this stone was raised again.
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
- Hästevads stenar - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 58 ° 21 '5.8 " N , 12 ° 25' 0.1" E