Ship settlement from Böckersboda
The ship settlements of Böckersboda ( Swedish Böckersboda Skeppssättning ), also known as Lyrestad 21: 1 and Lyrestad 21: 2, are located in the village of Böckersboda on a ridge on an old road in the Swedish province of Västra Götalands län .
The group consists of two neighboring ship settlements that were dated to the Iron Age around 400 to 550 AD. The larger one has 16 menhirs and measures around 30.0 × 8.0 meters. The smaller one has seven stones and measures around 17.0 × 8.0 meters. The ships were excavated and restored in 1950. Both contained central cremation graves . They contained ash, charcoal, bones, pieces of bone and fragments of a comb made of horn .
Web links
- Böckersboda on the pages of the Länsstyrelsen i Västra Götalands län (Swedish)
- Ship settlements from Böckersboda - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
- Description swed.
- Description Engl. and pictures
Coordinates: 58 ° 47 '26.4 " N , 14 ° 5' 15.8" E