Käringsjön (Halmstad)
Coordinates: 56 ° 43 ′ 35 ″ N , 12 ° 55 ′ 6 ″ E
Käringsjön is a boiler moor in the municipality of Halmstad in Halland in Sweden , about ten kilometers northeast of the city.
The moor is roughly circular, with a diameter of around 70 m and only a small remainder of what was once a larger open water surface. Archaeological finds were made in it in 1941 during peat extraction. It is a former sacrificial moor , in the vicinity of which no traces of settlement were found. The site was surrounded by branches, stones and bushes. Felled trees that had fallen into the lake formed the foundation for a platform from the moor to the open area of the lake. On the platform and in the lake there were vessels, pieces of wood, bundles of flax and stones, but no weapons. Holes had been punched in the bottom of some of the vessels. Inside were traces of an animal fatty substance. The wooden objects were mostly agricultural implements. The vessels were dated between the 2nd and 5th centuries AD. The moor is considered a sacred place for the rural population in the area.
literature
- Jan Bemmann , Güde Hahne : Ancient Iron Age sanctuaries in northern Europe according to the archaeological sources . In: Germanic Religious History. Sources and source problems. Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Vol. 5. Berlin 1992. pp. 29-69.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mårten Stenberger : Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 , p. 295.
- ↑ Anne Carlie: Käringsjön. A fertility sacrificial site from the late Roman iron age in south-west Sweden, Current Swedish Archeology 6 , 1998, 17-37. [1] (PDF; 2.1 MB)