Hjälmars rör

Hjälmars rör : (also Hjelmrör, Vetterlingsgården or Falköping 3 mentioned 1) a passage grave with a 18-fold section division in Falköping in Falbygden in Västergötland in Sweden . According to Karl Esaias Sahlström (1884–1964) it is one of the oldest in the country.

Its double-sided, double-sided rectangular chamber made of eight bearing stones and four cap stones is half hidden in the mound and is accessed in the south-east through a corridor from which three cap stones are visible. The chamber is 5.6 m long, 2.5 m wide in the middle and is located in a hill that is about 22.0 m in diameter and one meter remaining height. The megalithic complex was built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a passage grave of the funnel cup culture (TBK).

The complex was excavated twice and around 200 amber beads , human bones from the chamber and some fragments found outside have been preserved. Eighteen quarters were found in the chamber, which were only separated laterally by partition plates (and not completely).

literature

• Lars Bägerfeldt: Megalitgravarna i Sverige. Type, tid, rum och social miljö. 2nd edition, Arkeo Förlaget, Gamleby 1992, ISBN 91-86742-45-0 .
• Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• Passage graves in Sweden

Web links

Commons : Hjelmars rör  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Falköping 3: 1 - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
• Basic plan
• sketch

Coordinates: 58 ° 10 ′ 11.3 "  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 41.1"  E