Sagaholm is the site of
Bronze Age
The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...
burial mounds (''Sagaholmshögen''). Sagaholm is located in Ljungarums parish just south of
Jönköping
Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland.
The city is the seat of Jönköping Municipali ...
in
Småland, Sweden.
![Sagaholm profil k-kedja-red](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Sagaholm_profil_k-kedja-red.jpg)
Sagaholmshögen
Sagaholmshögen is a
cairn
A cairn is a man-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound. The word ''cairn'' comes from the gd, càrn (plural ).
Cairns have been and are used for a broad variety of purposes. In prehis ...
dating from the early
Nordic Bronze Age (c. 1700–500 BC).
The site had a large
barrow
Barrow may refer to:
Places
England
* Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria
** Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, local authority encompassing the wider area
** Barrow and Furness (UK Parliament constituency)
* Barrow, Cheshire
* Barrow, Gloucestershire
* Barro ...
with a circle of slabs of
sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
, probably numbering as many as 100. The Bronze Age graves were built in the form of a mound. Around 1,500 years after the grave was built, another four smaller graves were constructed at the foot of the mound.
Only 45 graves remain, with 18 of them adorned with
petroglyph
A petroglyph is an image created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions ...
s depicting ships, animals and people, including scenes of
zoophilia. The finds are presently on display in Jönköpings County Museum (''Jönköpings läns museum'') in Jönköping.
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See also
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The King's Grave
The King's Grave (''Kungagraven i Kivik, Kiviksgraven'') is an archaeological site. It is situated near Kivik in the southeastern portion of Scania, Sweden. The site is what remains of an unusually grand Nordic Bronze Age double burial dating f ...
*
Trundholm sun chariot
The Trundholm sun chariot ( da, Solvognen), is a Nordic Bronze Age artifact discovered in Denmark. It is a representation of the sun chariot, a bronze statue of a horse and a large bronze disk, which are placed on a device with spoked wheels.
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Skelhøj
Skelhøj is a burial mound from the early Bronze Age, situated near the Kongeå River in southern Denmark. It was archaeologically excavated between 2002 and 2004.
History
Skelhøj is an individual burial mound that is part of a broader series ...
References
Sources
*Goldhahn, Joakim (2006) ''Om döda och efterlevande med exempel från Bredrör, Skelhøj, Sagaholm och Mjeltehaugen'' (Bergen, Norway: "Arkeologiske Skrifter". Pg 283-303)
External links
SagaholmJönköpings läns museum website
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Nordic Bronze Age
Germanic archaeological sites
Archaeological sites in Sweden
Geats
Zoophilia