Värperör
Värperör is a Röse ( Swedish Gravröse or Roj ) from the Bronze Age (1800–500 BC) It is located on the crest of a ridge, 150 meters south of the named farm Värpeby, on a burial ground northwest of Kolbäck in the municipality of Hallstahammar in Västmanland in Sweden .
Värperör is Västmanland's largest roe, five meters high and around 35.0 m in diameter. It is made of heavy stone and has a large central pit. Here, in the 1820s, the archaeologist Alexander Seton blew himself up inside the tomb with the help of gunpowder. About 100 meters east of the Röse is a burial ground with 20 stone settings.
After the megalithic structures and stone boxes , the Röser are the next stone architecture in Denmark and Scandinavia . Selected dead were initially buried individually - sometimes in pairs - in wooden or stone boxes under the stone mounds, which were particularly monumental in the region during the older Bronze Age and which were sometimes finally covered with earth ( Lejsturojr ). During the Iron Age , corpse fire was also deposited under the stone mounds ( Röse von Gösslunda ).
literature
- K. Siik: Värperör - ett storröse i Västmanland från bronsåldern. B-uppsats i Arkeologi. Stockholm University. Stencil 2000
- Maud Emanuelsson: Värpeby. Arkeologisk utredning etapp 2 . Kulturmiljövård Mälardalen, 2007, p. 7 f. ( online )
Web links
- Värperör - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
Coordinates: 59 ° 34 '29.2 " N , 16 ° 11' 2.8" E