Ship settlement on Gotland
About 350 of the ship settlements on Gotland are still preserved. Joakim Wehlin writes that 30–40% of the ships on Gotland have disappeared since the Younger Bronze Age. A low guess of the original number might be 800. Around the Baltic Sea there are almost 650 stone ships from the Younger Bronze Age (1100–700 BC), most of which can be found on the Åland Islands and the larger islands of Bornholm , Gotland, Öland and Saaremaa . They sometimes come close together and form groups of five ships ten times.
The ship settlements ( Swedish skeppssättning ) on the Swedish island of Gotland represent the greatest concentration of this type of finds. There are ship settlements in Denmark , southern Sweden , parts of the Baltic and Western Pomerania ; however, due to the high number of ship settlements on Gotland, it is assumed that the idea originated there. Due to their lithic starting position, however, they are inferior to other southern Scandinavian systems in terms of their average size . Most are made from boulders . In the cemetery of Domarlunden there is a ship made of limestone slabs.
Well-known ship settlements are at Djupvik , Domarlunden (Richterwald - five ships), Gålrum , Gannarve , Gnisvärd (the largest on the island at 47 m), Rannarve (four ships) and Tjälder ( Tjelvars grave ).
Other important sites are:
- Annelund burial ground (remains at Flupplatz Visby )
- Ship settlement at Follingbo near Visby
- Barshalder burial ground
- Ship settlement of Bändelen's tappo near Lau
- Lilla Karlsö
literature
- Erik Nylén : Gotland soil monuments. Gotlandskonst, Visby 1974.
