Stone box from Levene

Stone box from Levene

The northeast-southwest oriented stone box from Levene is located in the forest north of Stora Levene near Vara in Västergötland in Sweden .

The stone box consists of four preserved stones, which lie under a ceiling plate about 5.8 m long and 1.9 to 3.9 m wide. On the northwest side is a 3.9 × 1.35 m measuring 0.3 m thick plate (torn by frost). The long edges of the side stones are visible in their upper parts. The stone box was restored in 1923.

A cup stone measuring 1.15 × 0.9 × 0.6 m , which was originally about 60.0 m northeast, was moved nearby. It has around 60 bowls and longer grooves. The bowls have a diameter of 3.0 to 8.0 cm and depths between 0.5 and 2.0 cm. The oblong recesses measure 1.4 × 8 cm and are 1.5 to 5.5 cm deep.

Nearby is the Levene rune stone.

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 , p. 104 ff.

Web links

• Levene's stone box - entry in the "Fornsök" database of the Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
• Description and pictures (English)

Coordinates: 58 ° 21 '11.4 "  N , 12 ° 52' 14.2"  E