Nycklabacken
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The cemetery of Nycklabacken is one of the larger in the province Västergötland in Sweden . It is located west of Herrljunga not far from the "Fölene kyrka" (church). The burial ground was used from the Nordic Iron Age (400 BC to 550 AD) through the Vendel Period (550–800 AD) to the Viking Age (800–1050 AD).
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On the preserved part of the burial ground there are over 200 prehistoric monuments, including 149 round stones measuring between 3 and 18 m and one angular stone, 27 to over three meters high building stones , 18 loops , of which five to 20 m in diameter and two medium-sized Treuddar . A further 100 monuments (mostly building stones and stone circles) are said to have been destroyed by gravel excavation. Of the building blocks that had mostly fallen over, eleven were put back up again in 1907 on the initiative of the local population.
In the southeast of the burial ground , some graves were excavated in the 1950s that contained corpse burns, broken ceramics and game stones . Individual finds were a bronze ring and a piece of flint .
Web links
- Nycklabacken - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description and pictures (Swedish)
Coordinates: 58 ° 4 ′ 49 ″ N , 12 ° 57 ′ 53.2 ″ E