Sjokullarna
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The Sjökullarna ( German "Seehügel" ; Raae number Vada. 10: 1) a 315 x 110 m measured burial north of Vada near the river Husaån in the municipality Vallentuna in Uppland in Sweden . The burial ground comprises 114 monuments, including almost 100 round and square stone settings , 10 burial mounds , three Treudds and a house floor plan. The remains were dated to the Vendel period (550–800 AD).
Sjökullarna is the largest collection of large hills in Vallentuna. This and the strategically favorable location on the “Långhundraleden”, a Viking Age waterway between Uppsala and the Baltic Sea , suggest that Vada in the Attundal was an important center of power in the Iron Age .
The Vadakullarna are the three large hills that gave the burial ground its name. The two largest are about 30.0 m in diameter, more than 4.0 meters high and are the largest , along with Kööhögen (5.0 m high - 35.0 m diameter) in Orkesta (RAÄ-Nr. Orkesta 30: 1) of their kind in Vallentuna. The third hill is 3.0 meters high and about 20.0 meters in diameter. The largest Treudd has a side length of about 22.0 meters. The house floor plan is slightly arched, about 18.0 meters long, with individual stones on the surface.
literature
- Michel Kazanski: The Ancestors of the Vikings. In: Spectrum of Science. December 12, 2007, ISSN 0170-2971 , pp. 100-107.
Web links
- Sjökullarna - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 34 ′ 47.9 " N , 18 ° 12 ′ 27.3" E