Stone boxes in Norway
The stone boxes in Norway are a grave form that during the Stone Age only in Eastern and during the early Iron Age , especially in Western Norway was widespread. The late, flagstone-built smaller boxes are usually a little longer than an adult, but mostly narrow and low. The side walls usually consist of four small or large panels. The ceiling consists of one or more large panels. Stone boxes are usually under mounds of earth or roasts .
Iron Age stone boxes contain body burials in which the fully clothed dead mostly lie on their backs on a bed made of textiles and leather. They are furnished with accessories that are deposited on one narrow side: ceramics, jewelry from our own production, imported copper alloys or glass. This part of the stone box is sometimes built as a separate room. Graves of this type can also be large. The stone box from Eikeland in Time, in Rogaland , is made for two people and is around 7.0 m long, 1.0 m wide and 80 cm high.
There are only 12 large funnel-beaker culture (TBK) stone boxes dating to the Neolithic in Norway (including Limbuhaugen , Mjeltehaugen , Søndre Fange and Tangvall ).
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