Ekornavallen Grave Field
Ekornavallen Cemetery
Middle Neolithic to Viking Age·Funnel Beaker → Bronze Age → Iron Age Scandinavia·🇸🇪 Västra Götaland, Falbygden, Sweden
About
About Ekornavallen Grave Field
Long-lived grave field on shore of former Lake Hornborga showing 3000 years continuity: Neolithic passage grave Girommen (Jättakullen c.3200 BCE, 13 m passage), Bronze Age cairn, Iron Age triangular stone settings, Viking stone ship and medieval road Askavallen. Four tomb types spanning Neolithic to Viking in one meadow. Proximity to Hornborgasjön bird lake ritual landscape.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Why same meadow reused for 3000 years
Theories
- 01Sacred geography of Hornborga lake shore
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Girommen c.3200 BCE; later phases to c.1000 CE
- Period
- Middle Neolithic to Viking Age
- Culture
- Funnel Beaker → Bronze Age → Iron Age Scandinavia
- Purpose
- Continuous funerary landscape over three millennia
- Abandoned
- Medieval
- Rediscovered
- 19th century; excavation 1940s
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
Girommen c.3200 BCE; later phases to c.1000 CE
Initial construction
c. 1133 CE
Major expansion
On the ground
Structures & features
58.2719° N · 13.6206° E · 135 m · 2 mapped features
Girommen (Jättakullen)
passage gravePassage grave with 13 m passage, limestone chamber
58.2719° N · 13.6206° ETriangular Stone Setting
stone settingIron Age 8 m triangular boulder setting
58.2721° N · 13.6209° E
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