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

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.

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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Sagaholmshögen

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