Gantofta grinding grooves
The grinding grooves of Gantofta ( Swedish Sliprännor i Gantofta ) in the municipality of Helsingborg in Skåne in Sweden are located on a sandstone wall at the steep drop of a river valley .
Traditionally, they are considered to be sword sharpening grooves , like the countless but completely straight grooves on Gotland , because it was believed that they came about when people polished their swords or flint axes on the rocks.
Grinding grooves are common in Sweden, especially in the north-west of Skåne, especially on the Kullen peninsula , Gotland and Östergötland . Traces of the Stone Age pit ceramic culture (around 3200–2600 BC) are common in these areas . So far, however, there is no evidence that Stone Age people created the grooves.
The Swedish archaeologist Sven Rosborn assumes that the Gantofta grinding grooves were created in the Middle Ages at the earliest, but probably in the modern era, when the soft sandstone was ground to extract stone dust. He justifies this with maps from the 18th and 19th centuries, which have a conspicuous plot structure and special signatures for the area of the grinding grooves.
See also
literature
- Sven Rosborn: Det randiga berget i Gantofta . In: Popular Historia . No. 1 , 1992 ( online ).
Web links
- Grinding grooves from Gantofta - entry in the "Fornsök" database of Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sven Rosborn : Sliprännorna i Gantofta. Nyfunnen kunskap om en märklig plats. (PDF) In: Bulletiner från Foteviken. Fotevikens Museum , May 15, 2012, accessed July 3, 2018 (Swedish).
Coordinates: 55 ° 58 ′ 39.2 " N , 12 ° 48 ′ 58.3" E