Simunde wheel grave
The Simunde Wheel Grave is a wheel grave in the Bara parish on Gotland in Sweden that was examined in the 1950s. Simunde lies between Dune and Källunge on the Slite – Roma railway line . The monument, which is almost thirty meters in diameter, is also known as the Storgrav. The wheel grave, also wheel cross grave ( Swedish Hjulgrav or Hjulkorsgrav ), is a Bronze Age grave form in Denmark and Scandinavia .
The monument contains about 20 graves. The oldest is from the Bronze Age (around 1500 BC) and the youngest are dated to the Vendel Period (650–800 AD). The memorial, consisting of three recognizable outer rings, about the size of a head and a flat inner filling made of smaller stones, served as a burial place for more than 2000 years. During this time it was subject to internal and external influences and went through a gradual development. This also includes the installation of a stone box close to the edge .
The excavation of the Simunde monument, with the many tombs and its complexity often mentioned in archaeological literature, was only published in 2012.
literature
- Joakim Wehlin, Bengt Schönbäck: En storgrav från Gotlands bronsålder. Arkeologisk undersökning vid Simunde i Hörsne med Bara socken på Gotland 1957–58 Gotland University Press 13 Visby 2012 ISBN 91-86343-09-2
Web links
- Description Swedish and picture
- Wheel grave of Simunde - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description Swedish and pictures
Coordinates: 57 ° 35 ′ 44 " N , 18 ° 37 ′ 34.6" E