Stone box from Nästegården

Stone box from Nästegården

The restored stone box from Nästegården is located between Göteborgsvägen and the railway line to the west of Falköping in the province of Västergötland in Sweden . The complex was built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a large stone grave of the funnel cup culture (TBK).

Stone box from Nästegården

It is located in a hill covered with stones 0.2-0.4 m in diameter, about 7.0 m in diameter and 0.4-0.5 m high. The small stone box made of limestone measures around 2.2 × 0.62 m inside. The long side plates are approximately 2.8 m long, 0.4 m wide and 0.1 thick. The short side plates are missing. The only surviving capstone is 0.8 m long and wide and 0.1 m thick.

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

Commons : Nästegårdens hällkista, Falköping  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stone box from Nästegården - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)

Coordinates: 58 ° 9 ′ 48.7 ″  N , 13 ° 31 ′ 19 ″  E