Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Hanehög
DatedEst. 2000 BCE–1050 CE
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Overview
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Overview
Hanehög is a Bronze Age mound near Håslöv, in Håslöv parish, Vellinge municipality, Skåne, Sweden, just beside the road between Håslöv church and Räng church. It has a diameter of 23 meters and a height of 5 meters. The catalogue gives a typological date range of 2000 BCE to 1050 CE, and the mound is recorded in the Swedish national register of ancient monuments (Fornminnesregistret).
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Hanehög
On the north side there was formerly a larger depression, because earth had been taken from the mound in earlier times.
DescriptionSources for this section
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On the north side there was formerly a larger depression, because earth had been taken from the mound in earlier times.
FolkloreSources for this section
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Several legends about the mound are given by Nicolovius in Folklivet i Skytts härad (1847). One holds that the mound moves eastward a tuppfjät (a cock's step) every year. It may possibly be linked to a legend recorded in the 1700s about a dragon that had been turned away from the parsonage and each year moved the ground where he lived closer to the house, in order finally to set the farm on fire. When the mound reached the kitchen stove of the parsonage, the house was to burn. Another legend tied to the mound tells of Vinkepin of Hanehög, who stole beer from a nearby farm.
ContextSources for this section
- Wikipedia (Swedish): HanehögCC BY-SA 4.0
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Most of the mounds in Sweden are round earth mounds (gravhögar) or heaps of stone (rösen). Many belong to the Nordic Bronze Age, roughly 1700 to 500 BCE. Many of these graves have not been excavated, and their dates are inferred from shape, setting and the grave goods of excavated neighbours, so a range is given instead of a single year.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Swedish burial mounds and cairns
Sweden's landscape is thick with prehistoric graves, and most of the mounds in the Atlas are round earth mounds (gravhögar) or heaps of stone (rösen, or cairns). Many belong to the Nordic Bronze Age, roughly 1700 to 500 BCE, when the elite were buried beneath mounds of earth or stone. In the early part of that period the dead were often laid in oak coffins or stone cists; towards the end of the second millennium BCE cremation became the norm, and the ashes went into an urn or a small pit under a cairn.
Many of these graves have not been excavated. Their dates are inferred from shape, setting and the grave goods of excavated neighbours, so the Atlas gives a range instead of a single year.
The showpiece is the King's Grave at Kivik in Scania, the remains of an unusually grand double burial of about the fifteenth century BCE. Its restored cairn is some 75 metres across and 3.5 metres high. At the centre is a cist about 4 metres long, built of ten upright slabs, eight of them carved on the inside with ships, a two-horse chariot, lur players, axes, birds and fish. Farmers opened the chamber in 1748 while taking stone for field walls, and the carvings were first recognised in 1756. The excavation of 1931 recovered only teeth, bone fragments and broken bronze, because the grave had been looted. In the nineteenth century some scholars read the carvings as the work of Phoenician settlers; that idea was later rejected.
When visiting, look for mounds on ridges with a view over farmland or water, for kerb stones at the foot of a cairn, and for a shallow dip in the top that often marks an old digging.
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Dated moments in the story
- 1700
Eventuellt kan denna hög knytas till en legend nedtecknad på 1700-talet om en drake som blivit avvisad från prästgården och som varje år flyttar marken där han bor närmare huset för att till slut kunna sätta eld på gården.
Source - 1847
Nicolovius anger i boken ”Folklivet i Skytts härad” 1847 flera sägner kring högen.
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 2000 BCE–1050 CEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic mounds in Sweden; this site has not been dated itself. Swedish barrows are mostly Bronze Age rosen of the Nordic Bronze Age (c. 2000-500 BC); the Viking-age royal mounds of Gamla Uppsala belong to the Viking Age (about 800-1050 CE).Source for this date
Where it stands
Sweden
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 55°26′03″ N, 13°02′03″ EFor a GPS or map app: 55.43417, 13.03417
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- MegalithHåslöv 512000–500 BCE
- MegalithHåslöv 532000–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tegelhög2000 BCE–1050 CE
Skegriedösen- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Åkes hög2000 BCE–1050 CE
- MegalithHåslöv 4:12000–500 BCE
- MegalithGränsdösen2000–500 BCE
- MegalithBodarp 3:12000–500 BCE
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- 01Wikidata Q10517200wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Lore, kept apart
Legends and claims
These are stories and claims reported by the sources. They are not evidence, and they never stand in for the dating above.
- Tradition
Hanehög är en bronsåldershög som ligger i nära Håslöv i Håslövs socken, Vellinge kommun i Skåne strax intill vägen mellan Håslövs kyrka och Rängs kyrka.
Hanehög är en bronsåldershög som ligger i nära Håslöv i Håslövs socken, Vellinge kommun i Skåne strax intill vägen mellan Håslövs kyrka och Rängs kyrka. Högen har en diameter på 23 meter och en höjd av 5 meter. På norra sidan var tidigare en större fördjupning eftersom man där i äldre tid tagit jord. Nicolovius anger i boken ”Folklivet i Skytts härad” 1847 flera sägner kring högen. En berättar att högen flyttar sig österut ett ”tuppfjät” om året. Eventuellt kan denna hög knytas till en legend nedtecknad på 1700-talet om en drake som blivit avvisad från prästgården och som varje år flyttar marken där han bor närmare huset för att till slut kunna sätta eld på gården. När högen kommer fram till prästgårdens köksspis ska huset brinna. En annan sägen som är knuten till högen berättar om Vinkepin av Hanehög som stal öl i en närbelägen bondgård.
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