Ship settlement at Rannarve
The ship's setting at Rannarve is in Klintehamn on the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea .
A forest path begins in the northwest of Klintehamn and turns north after about one kilometer. After another 250 m you come to a cleared prehistoric area with ship settlements and cairn graves . Four ship settlements lie one behind the other in a straight line to the north.
The ships are each about nine feet long and five feet wide and have five common Steven stones of a good two meters height. The three middle ones together form the fore and aft stems of the adjacent ships. The facility was damaged by fallen stones. In the course of the archaeological investigations from 1966 to 1967, the stone ships were restored.
Here are also a small set of ships with a small central menhir and a closely set stone circle that surrounds a cairn .
During the excavations, an urn with a corpse burn was discovered in one of the ships . It was a so-called house urn in the shape of a round hut. The vessel is on display in the prehistoric section of the Gotlands Fornsal County Museum in Visby . Using the house urn and the small bronze knife, the burials can be dated to the younger Bronze Age.
A path leads from the ship's settlements to a large roe , a Bronze Age cairn grave , 300 m away .
See also
literature
- Marita Jonsson, Sven-Olof Lindquist: Gotland cultural guide . Almqvist and Wiksell, Uppsala 1993, ISBN 91-88036-09-X .
Web links
- Ship settlement at Rannarve - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description and pictures (Swedish)
- The Rannarve cemetery on Grosssteingraeber.de
- The cairn grave Rannarve on Grosssteingraeber.de
- Description site plan and pictures (Swedish)
Coordinates: 57 ° 23 ′ 46.2 ″ N , 18 ° 13 ′ 26 ″ E