Stenkyrka wheel grave
The wheel grave of Stenkyrka was formerly at the burial ground of Lilla Bjärs, but was archaeologically examined because of the road expansion , removed and reconstructed at the Heimathof, near the road leading west from Stenkyrka . Stenkyrka is located in the north of the Swedish island of Gotland .
The wheel grave , also wheel cross grave ( Swedish Hjulgrav or Hjulkorsgrav ), is an Iron Age (500 BC - 550 AD) grave form in Denmark and Scandinavia .
The Stenkyrka wheel grave is around 17.0 m in diameter. The outer edge consists of two rows of field stones of the same size. Between them and the hub of the wheel consisting of a low Cairn ( Röse is formed), Y-shaped "spokes" are determined from small stones from red sandstone. In the cairn in the middle of the wheel, set on the edge, were two stone boxes made of limestone slabs that had been looted.
The best preserved wheel graves are on the Swedish mainland, Gotland and Jutland . The wheel grave of Rojrhagen in Linde on Gotland, once 25 m in diameter, is now half destroyed by a road. Many wheel graves have a stone box in the center, those of Linde and Stenkyrka even have two.
literature
- M. Jonsson, S.-O. Lindquist: Gotland cultural guide . 1993, ISBN 91-88036-09-X .
- 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 .
Web links
- Stenkyrka with picture (Swedish)
- Stenkyrka with picture (Swedish)
- The Stenkyrka wheel grave on Grosssteingraeber.de
Coordinates: 57 ° 47 ′ 47.3 " N , 18 ° 31 ′ 35.2" E