Bostället's stone chest

Bostället's stone chest

Bostället's stone box hill

The stone box of Bostället (Raae number Asige 19-1) is in a with pebbles covered hill of about 20 m in diameter and 1.0 m in height between the places Asige and Öinge in the province of Halland in Sweden . The complex was built at the end of the Stone Age .

The north-west-south-east oriented stone box ( Swedish Hällkiste ) is located in the south-eastern part of a tree-lined hill and measures around 2.8 × 1.0 m. On one long side there are two panels 0.8–1.7 m long, 0.6–0.7 m high and 0.1–0.2 m thick. The other long side consists of three panels 0.55 to 1.3 m long, 0.5 to 0.6 m high and 0.1 to 0.5 m thick. The short end sides consist of 0.2 m thick plates. The capstone is 2.6 m long, 1.2 m wide and 0.25 m thick. Immediately southwest of the stone box is a stone 0.6 × 0.4 m.

literature

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

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• List of stone boxes

Web links

• Stone chest from Bostället - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)

Coordinates: 56 ° 51 '54.2 "  N , 12 ° 45' 38"  E