Stone box on Björkön

On the island of Björkön in the Svanefjord west of Vänern , the collapsed stone box on Björkön ( Swedish: Hällkista på Björkön ) was discovered in the 1930s . In the approximately 3500-year-old stone box were arrowheads of slate and flint and next to individual shards of a compact layer of a total of 1,150 pieces of pottery with ornaments of passage grave remember ceramic found. The flint tools consisted of scrapers and knives . Crockery was found lined with fine-grain slate and jewelry made of slate.

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• List of stone boxes

literature

• Mårten Stenberger : Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 .

Web links

• Stone box on Björkön - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
• Description and picture (Swedish; memento of the page from March 2016 via archive.org)

Coordinates: 58 ° 47 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 23.8 ″  E