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Klövagården — Runt Falköping finns ett av Europas tätaste gånggriftsområde, i Karleby socken finns ett stort antal, varav Sveriges största med…

Passage tomb (passage grave)

Klövagården

Sweden

DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE

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Klövagården (RAÄ-Nr. Karleby 57:1) ist ein Ganggrab der Trichterbecherkultur (TBK) in Karleby bei Falköping in Västergötland in Schweden.

Klövagården ist der südlichste der drei Hauptstandorte von Megalithanlagen um Karleby. Die zwischen 3500 und 2800 v. Chr. erstellte Anlage liegt in einem etwa 2,7 m hohen Rundhügel von etwa 22 Meter Durchmesser. Das Ganggrab entstand zwischen 3500 und 2800 v. Chr. als Megalithanlage der Trichterbecherkultur (TBK) und ist eine Bauform jungsteinzeitlicher Megalithanlagen, die aus einer Kammer und einem baulich abgesetzten, lateralen Gang besteht. Diese Form ist primär in Dänemark, Deutschland und Skandinavien, sowie vereinzelt in Frankreich und den Niederlanden zu finden.

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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.

  1. Göbekli Tepe9600 BCE
  2. First farming9500 BCE
  3. Avebury2600 BCE
  4. Great Pyramid of Giza2560 BCE
  5. Stonehenge2500 BCE
  6. Bronze Age collapse1200 BCE
  7. Rome founded753 BCE
  8. Parthenon447 BCE
  9. Hadrian's Wall122 CE
  10. Machu Picchu built1450 CE
12,000 BCE8,000 BCE4,000 BCE1 CE1,500 CE
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Est. 3500–2800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical for this type

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Klövagården (RAÄ-Nr. Karleby 57:1) is a passage tomb of the Trichterbecherkultur (TBK) near Karleby by Falköping in Västergötland, Sweden. It is the southernmost of three main sites of megalithic monuments around Karleby. The monument is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE.

The tomb stands within a roughly circular mound about 22 metres across and 2,7 m high. Its roughly rectangular chamber is about 6,0 metres long and between 2,7 metres and 2,2 metres wide, built from 8 large upright stones and one small one. Three of an estimated 5 capstones survive, the largest measuring 3,6 × 1,7 metres.

A laterally separated passage leads into the chamber. It is 7 metres long and 1,5 metres wide, formed by 11 upright stones, with only three of at least 5 capstones still resting on them. Fragments of a partition or screen were found inside the chamber.

The site was excavated in 1872. Finds included amber beads, a heart-shaped flint arrowhead, flakes, shattered pottery, and the bones of around 80 individuals. Nearby lies Ragnvalds Grab. Passage graves of this general type are found mainly in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, and only occasionally in France and the Netherlands.

No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Klövagården", shown in the original language.

Klövagården

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Klövagården is a passage tomb (passage grave) in Sweden. A typological estimate: 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Klövagården", shown in the original language.