Klövagården
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Klövagården ( Raae -No Karleby. 57: 1) is a passage grave the Beaker culture (TBK) in Karleby at Falköping in Västergötland in Sweden.
Klövagården is the southernmost of the three main locations of megalithic sites around Karleby. Between 3500 and 2800 BC The facility, which was built in BC, is located in a roughly 2.7 m high round hill with a diameter of about 22 meters. The passage grave was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. As a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) and is a form of Neolithic megalithic systems, which consists of a chamber and a structurally separated, lateral passage. This form is primarily found in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as occasionally in France and the Netherlands.
description
The roughly rectangular chamber of the passage grave ( Swedish passage grave ) is about 6.0 meters long and between 2.7 meters and 2.2 meters wide. It consists of 8 large and one small bearing stone. Three of possibly 5 capstones cover the chamber. The largest measures 3.6 × 1.7 meters. The corridor is 7 meters long and 1.5 meters wide. It consists of 11 supporting stones on which only three (of at least 5) cap stones rest. There were remains of sections in the chamber .
Finds
The facility was excavated in 1872. Found amber beads a heart-shaped flint arrowhead , haircuts , zerscherbte ceramics and bones contained approximately 80 individuals.
Nearby is Ragnvald's grave .
See also
literature
- Lili Kaelas: Dolmen and passage graves in Sweden. Reports and Communications on prehistory, early history, etc. Medieval archeology. Writings of the Provincial Institute for People and State Research at the University of Kiel, Offa 1956. 15, pp. 5–24.
Web links
- Description and pictures
- Klövagården - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 58 ° 9 '10.3 " N , 13 ° 38' 15.9" E