Ivar's cul
Ivars kulle (also called Kung Inges Hög or Sperlingsholm ) in the parish of Övraby, northeast of Halmstad in Halland in Sweden is a burial mound from the Bronze or Iron Age . Ivars kulle is east of the E6 between Malmö and Gothenburg , south of the junction with Riksväg 26 .
The largest burial mound in Halland is four meters high and about 40 meters in diameter. It is located on a 3.0 m high moraine that was created by the inland ice. In a partial excavation in 1972, five graves from the Bronze Age were found.
According to local historian Harry Hedin, the name "Ivars Hill" comes from a person named Givar Gunnarsson who owned the land from 1717 to 1756. After that, the hill was listed on maps and surveying documents as "Iwe Wång" (1756), "Giwa Hill" (1775), "Ifva Wang" (1801) and "Gifwa Hill" (1823). In 1956 the place name archive named the hill “Ivars kulle” and that is how it is called locally.
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 253
Web links
- Ivars kulle - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 56 ° 42 ′ 38.9 ″ N , 12 ° 53 ′ 40.1 ″ E