Styrmansberg

On the Styrmansberg (Steuermannsberg), a hill southeast of the Church of Fröjel , on the Swedish island of Gotland, there is a prehistoric castle ruin ( Swedish fornborg ). To the west towards the sea, the place is protected by a steep mountain slope. Behind it extends a semicircular area with a diameter of about 100 m, surrounded by a wall and the inner wall in shell construction. The approximately three meter wide wall has a passage in the east. To the southeast of this opening is an approximately twelve-meter-long building foundation , which is connected to the castle wall by a wall at right angles to the long side of the foundation. Seven cairn tombs , two of them within the foundation, lie east and south-east of the castle wall.

The graves, the building foundations and part of the ramparts were examined by Per Lundström and Arne Biörnstad in 1949. The result of the investigation was surprising. The emergence of the tombs, which represent the most recent component, could be dated to the earlier Roman Iron Age (0–200 AD) through finds . The building is older than the graves and the ramparts are even older. This means that the castle can very probably be dated to the time before the birth of Christ and was therefore built parallel to Hässleby on Öland. Structurally, however, the floor plan and location resemble the local castle of Bårby ,

literature

• Erik Nylén : Gotland soil monuments .

Web links

• Styrmansberg - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)

Coordinates: 57 ° 20 ′ 1 ″  N , 18 ° 11 ′ 38 ″  E