Högarör (Karlshamn)
The Högarör (with the Raae -number Karlshamn 29: 1 ) is located at the highest point of the peninsula Stärnö (also Sternö) at Karlshamn in Sweden and is about 5.0 m in height Blekinge largest Röse (plur Röser. Swedish Röjr or Rör ). A horse of the same name is located at Ljungby in Småland .
During the Bronze Age (1500–500 BC) in Sweden, sometimes huge rolling stone mounds were raised over privileged dead. In the early Bronze Age the deceased was buried in a tree coffin or a stone box . At the end of the Bronze Age the custom of burning the dead arose. The ashes were buried in an urn that was covered with stones or earth. About 20,000 Röser occur on the islands of Bornholm , Gotland and Öland and in Sweden and Denmark . Selected dead were initially buried individually - sometimes in pairs - in wooden or stone boxes under the stone mounds that were particularly monumental in the region in the older Bronze Age and were sometimes finally covered with earth.
According to legend, under the stone setting of the Bronze Age lies a large gold treasure guarded by a dragon.
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 248
Web links
- Description swed.
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- Karlshamn 29: 1 - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 56 ° 8 ′ 57.5 " N , 14 ° 50 ′ 42.6" E