Stone box from Søndre Fange
The stone box Søndre Fange is on a round hill of about 10.0 meters in diameter and 2.0 m in height in the garden of a farmhouse in Aremark , in Viken in Norway .
There are only 12 Neolithic stone boxes ( Norwegian Hellekister or Hellegraver ) in Norway, while they are particularly common in Sweden with over 2000 and partly come from the Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK).
Both long sides, one of the short sides and an approximately 1.3 m long, 55 cm wide and 20 cm thick capstone have been preserved from the stone box. Each long side consists of three panels about 0.55 m high. The plate on the short side to the northeast has broken in two. Outside the stone box there are slabs of unknown function in the middle of the long side, on the eastern corner and behind the north-west side. Inside the stone box is a flat plate.
The stone box was excavated in 1921. Pieces of two clay pots, a preserved clay bowl, a stone spindle whorl and a small collection of burned bones were found. Just outside the stone box, burned bones were found in a bowl and a few unburned bones along with small stone tools. The latter probably come from a secondary burial from the Iron Age (around 200 AD)
See also
literature
- Einar Østmo : Towards a border - Traces of megalithic ritual in the Fjord Country. In: Sophie Bergerbrant, Serena Sabatini (ed.): Counterpoint. Essays in Archeology and Heritage in Honor of Professor Kristian Kristiansen. Archaeopress, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-1-4073-1126-5 , pp. 301-308.
- Einar Østmo: Senneolittiske hellekister i Syd-Norge. En interim report . In: Situ 200/01
- Einar Østmo: Krigergraver: en dokumentarisk studie av senneolittiske hellekister i Norge Oslo: Kulturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, 2011
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Coordinates: 59 ° 17 ′ 5.1 ″ N , 11 ° 40 ′ 35.4 ″ E