Jättestugan
Jättestugan ( German "Riesenstube" ; also called Bärenberg ) is a large stone box in Hult bei Bärenberg, west of the Nossan River in the municipality of Essunga in Västergötland in Sweden . Between 2300 and 1800 BC The stone box erected in BC is one of the best preserved from Scandinavia's Neolithic Age and is located on a moraine in the Nossan Valley.
The stone box surrounded by a hill with a diameter of about 9.0 m is unusually large with internal dimensions of 7.5 × 1.5 m. The bearing stones, seven on one side and ten on the other, are up to a meter high and wide, but lower at the entrance. You can crawl into the box, which is so high inside that you can stoop in it. The ceiling consists of four panels.
In front of the box are two building blocks that are a little over a meter high and about half a meter wide .
A silver treasure from the Viking Age consisting of 183 coins, two bracelets and silver bars was found in a wetland north of the village of Bärenberg in 1910 . The coins minted by Sven Gabelbart and Knut the Great were deposited around 1050 AD.
Jättestugan is also the nickname of the Gantoftadoos , a dolmen in Kvistofta, in Skåne .
See also
literature
- Mårten Stenberger : Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 , p. 104 ff.
Web links
- Short text and picture
- Jättestugan - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 58 ° 12 ′ 5.7 ″ N , 12 ° 40 ′ 42.1 ″ E