Kvernes Tingsted
The stone circle Kvernes Tingsted (also called Tingstedet) is located in Averøy on the east side of the island Averøya in the Fylke Møre og Romsdal in Norway .
The stone circle, restored in 1993, replaces the original circle that was removed in 1929. In Møre og Romsdal there are four circles called Thing or Judges ( Domarring in Swedish ), in which court hearings were held in Sweden until the early modern period. Usually they consist of an odd number of stones, usually seven or nine. Not all have a center stone.
The stone circle consists of 11 rounded stone blocks, they are about 0.4 to 0.7 m in diameter and 0.5 meters high. The stones are about 1.5 to 2.0 meters apart. The diameter of the circle is about 15.0 meters. In the center of the circle is a larger stone, it has a flat surface and about 2.0 m in diameter. The circle is believed to date from the Iron Age AD 200–700. It has not been excavated, but its age is estimated from other circles in the area.
Phallic stone
During road construction in 1949, a 31 cm high and 23 cm wide phallic stone was found east of the church . Phallus stones are called "holy, white stones" and are mostly found in women's graves. The circumstances of the find are not known, but ashes were found, which indicates a cremation. Such stones can also be found free-standing as well as on and in barrows. The stones that could be dated date from the late Iron Age around 400–600 AD. They are often made of white quartz , marble or other light-colored rocks. They are shaped like a phallus, so it is obvious that they were used for fertility cult purposes. In pre-Christian times the cult of fertility and the cult of the dead were close together. The stone is in the Science Museum of the University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
Kvernes stave church is across the street . It was first mentioned in a document in 1432, but is probably older.
literature
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
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Coordinates: 63 ° 0 ′ 21.3 " N , 7 ° 43 ′ 21.3" E