Passage graves
Karleby
Luttra
Odensberg
Slutarp
Vårkumla
Passage graves |
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| If you would draw a triangle between the towns of Skara, Skövde and Falköping, then turning it upside down + making it slightly taller and narrower - then you´d have marked out the 'passage grave-country' ! Inside this triangle there are about 280 passage graves - 75 % of the total amount in Sweden ! These megalith graves are about 5300 years old. They have a passage ( always directed to the east - where the sun rises ) and a chamber, where the dead where buried in a sitting position. | ||
| Falköping Karleby Luttra Odensberg Slutarp Vårkumla |
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Gallery graves |
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| These graves are about 4000 years old - still from the Stone Age. Like the passage graves, they were made for numerous people. From the same period of time are the stone cists, but they are much smaller - for just one person. | ||
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