Stone box from Marbäck
The Marbäck stone box is located near Ulricehamn in the province of Västra Götalands län and the historic province of Västergötland in Sweden . In the Sjuhäradsbygden region, where Ulricehamn is located, around 80 of the more than 2,000 Swedish stone boxes found in greater numbers in southern Sweden. Stone boxes of this type were erected in the late Neolithic and the older Bronze Age (around 2400 BC).
The megalithic stone box from Marbäck consists of 23 bearing stones and has a single preserved capstone. The rest were probably used to build a stone bridge over a creek about 300 m to the north. The stone box was originally covered by a mound of earth.
In the box discovered in 1888, Alexander Åhman found a large number of objects, including 17 daggers and spearheads, 13 knives, 6 pendants made of slate and other types of stone, three scrapers, two leaf-shaped arrowheads, an ax, a chisel and flint chips . The following year, Oscar Montelius examined the box and found another sharp arrowhead. Wheat grains were found in one of the clay vessels, which is unusual for the Stone Age .
See also
literature
- Marbäcks hembygdsförening (Ed.): Marbäck. Bygden vid Åsunden. Marbäck 2000. Pages 24-26.
Web links
- Description Swedish and picture
- Stone box from Marbäck - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 57 ° 43 ′ 46.9 " N , 13 ° 26 ′ 39.4" E