Stone box from Utbogården
The Utbogården stone box (also called Hällkista i Karleby ) is located east of Karleby and Falköping in Västra Götaland in Sweden .
The megalithic stone box on level ground lay, according to the excavator Oscar Montelius (1843-1921) originally in a completely worn Roese . It is divided into two 4.5 and 0.8 m long chambers and has an anteroom about 1.0 m long. A soul hole ( Swedish Gavelhål ; German called Giebelloch ) lies in the partition between the chambers, which consists of two 0.1 to 0.15 m thick plates. The soul hole, which is divided by picking out two plates, forms the round entrance. The long sides consist of 13 obtained panels, 0.6 to 0.9 m high, 0.6 to 1.0 m wide and 0.15 m thick. The ends are formed by two plates each. All capstones are missing.
In the chamber in 1874 by Oscar Montelius and Gustaf Retzius (1842-1919) daggers, arrowheads and scrapers made of flint , as well as slate pendants , needles and bone tools, an amber bead , two bronze beads , part of a bronze point, four vessels and the bones of people and Animals found.
See also
literature
- Oscar Montelius : Grafundersökningar i Vestergötland. 2. Hällkista vid Karleby Utbogården i Vartofta härad. In: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antiqvitets Akademiens Månadsblad , 6th year (1877), pp. 425–433. New edition as e-book: Virvelvind Förlag, Lysekil 2016, ISBN 978-91-7757-047-9 ; on-line
- Mårten Stenberger : Nordic prehistory. Volume 4: Prehistory of Sweden. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1977, ISBN 3-529-01805-8 , p. 104 ff.
Web links
- Stone box from Utbogården - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 58 ° 9 '48.6 " N , 13 ° 38' 49.7" E