Sagaholm
Sagaholm is a Bronze Age burial mound in Ljungarums socken south of Jönköping in Småland , in Sweden . Around a dozen large burial mounds were found in the Jönköping region, but only the Sagaholm, three meters high and about 22.0 m in diameter, has a preserved, initially buried, curb stone circle made of 45 sandstone slabs, some of which are decorated with petroglyphs .
The highly stylized carvings show hunting scenes , people, animals and ships that are stylistically related to the depictions in the grave of Kivik . Below is a scene that is interpreted as zoophilia . This motif is known from Bohuslän (call songs) and also from Valcamonica . The finds are in the Jönköpings läns Museum in Jönköping. The grave is (uncalibrated) on 1445–1185 BC. Dated what is calibrated around 2000 BC. Corresponds to. Around 1,500 years later, four smaller graves were erected at the foot of the hill.
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literature
- Joakim Goldhahn: Om döda och efterlevande med exempel från Bredrör, Skelhøj, Sagaholm och Mjeltehaugen. In: Randi Barndon, Sonja M. Innselset, Kari K. Kristoffersen, Trond K. Lødøen (eds.): Samfunn, symboler og identitet. Festskrift til Gro Mandt på 70-årsdagen (= Universitetet i Bergen arkeologiske skrifter. Nordisk. 3). Universitet i Bergen, Bergen 2006, ISBN 82-90273-81-9 , pp. 283-303, ( digitized version (PDF; 771.17 kB) ).
- Joakim Goldhahn: Sagaholm. Hällristningar och gravritual (= Studia archaeologica Universitatis Umensis. Volume 11; Jönköpings Läns Museum. Report. No. 41). Umeå Universitet - Arkeologiska Institutions et al., Umeå 1999, ISBN 91-7191-489-7 (Dissertation University Umeå , 2000, 230 pages).
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Coordinates: 57 ° 44 ′ 46.7 " N , 14 ° 10 ′ 20.3" E