Kungshögen (Höllviken)
The Kungshögen is a burial mound from the Bronze Age in Höllviken, on the Foteviken Bay, about six kilometers southwest of the municipality of Vellinge in the far west of the Swedish province of Skåne län and the historic province of Skåne .
Large hills with a diameter of more than 30.0 meters are often called Kungshögen in Sweden ( German "Königshügel" - Sättuna Kungshög ; Kungshögen Högsäter and Nysäter; and the Kungshögarna of Malmö-Oxie ). They are mainly to be found around the Mälaren . Large mounds often date from the younger Iron Age . Some of the biggest: Anundshög in Västmanland , Grönehög in Bohuslän , Högom in Medelpad , Inglinge hög in Smaland , Ledbergs kulle in Östergötland , Ottarshögen in Uppland , Skalunda hög in Vastergotland , Ströbo hög in Västmanland and the three hill in Old Uppsala in Uppland .
The Höllviken Kungshögen is about 22.0 m in diameter and 5.0 m high. He was examined in 1890 by Oscar Montelius (1843–1921), who found five burials. Probably the oldest relic from the grave consisted of an approximately 11 cm high urn with a handle. Burned human bones were found in the urn. A coarser, larger clay pot was smashed, whereupon the lower part was used as a lid over a grave in the middle of the hill.
The underground grave
The tomb below the hill was the most interesting. The dead were cremated and the bones were buried in a so-called house urn ( Swedish Husurna ), which was designed as an oval round house or a round hut. House urns have been found in several places in Skåne, but this one is unique as it is the only one with a black and yellow decoration. In the urn next to the burned bones were a bronze knife, a bronze sieve and a double button made of bronze . Painted urns have their models south of the Alps . The urn stood on the quarter of a millstone and was placed in a simple stone box, which was covered by a small stone rosette. It seems that an existing burial mound was expanded to deposit the house urn. The bronzes in the tomb belong to period V, that is, they date to around 900–800 BC. During the Iron Age a skeleton grave was built in the burial mound. In addition to the bones, a horn spoon and a fragment of a bone ridge were found.
According to local tradition, the hill is said to be the tomb of Magnus Nielsen , who fell in the battle of Fodevig in 1134 . Montelius also found evidence of beacons ( Swedish Vårdkasen ) on the hill.
The Eskilstorpsdösen located close to the ocean, northwest of Vellinge.
Web links
- Kungshögen (Höllviken) - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description and picture (Swedish)
- Description and picture (Swedish)
- Description of the distribution of house urns
Coordinates: 55 ° 25 ′ 36.6 ″ N , 12 ° 58 ′ 12 ″ E