Köping 48:1
DatedEst. 2000 BCE–800 CE
No licensed photograph yetWe have no photograph we may publish for this site, so the interpretive 3D view leads instead.
Overview
About this site
Overview
Köping 48:1 is a stone circle in Borgholm Municipality, Sweden. It lies at 56.8768° N, 16.7178° E.
Catalogue recordSources and licences
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.
Article
Köping 48:1
ContextSources for this section
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
Sweden has thousands of recorded stone circles, or round stone settings. Stone circles in southern Scandinavia date mostly to the Iron Age, much later than the great circles of Britain, which were built mostly between 3300 and 2500 BCE. In Scandinavia the stone ship, or ship setting, was an early burial custom, with a grave or cremation surrounded by stones, and ships were built from about 1000 BCE to 1000 CE; round settings belong to the same grave-field tradition, often found alongside ships and mounds. The regional background, “Swedish stone circles”, is given below.
DatingSources for this section
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Sweden are generally dated 2000 BCE to 800 CE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
Swedish stone circles belong to the Bronze Age of the Nordic sphere (c. 2000-500 BC); during the Iron Age stone circles were built in southern Scandinavia whose Germanic Iron Age ends c. AD 800.
Setting
58 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (7 within 1 km, 24 within 5 km), 18 of them of the same type. The site belongs to a dense concentration of monuments. In Borgholm Municipality, Sweden, 49 of the 196 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Köping 48:2 (0.0 km east, stone circle); Köping 48:3 (0.0 km north-east, stone circle); Köping 243:1 (0.5 km north-east, megalithic mound); Köping 54:1 (0.5 km north-east, stone circle).
ProtectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
Heritage status: monument in Fornminnesregistret.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Swedish stone circles
Sweden has thousands of recorded stone circles, or round stone settings. Stone circles in southern Scandinavia date mostly to the Iron Age, much later than the great circles of Britain, which were built mostly between 3300 and 2500 BCE. In Scandinavia the stone ship, or ship setting, was an early burial custom, with a grave or cremation surrounded by stones, and ships were built from about 1000 BCE to 1000 CE; round settings belong to the same grave-field tradition, often found alongside ships and mounds.
One site shows the variety. Anundshög near Västerås in Västmanland covers about 215 by 205 metres and comprises 42 archaeological remains: 12 burial mounds, 10 round stone settings, 5 stone ships, 14 standing stones and one runestone. The largest mound, also called Anundshög, is 64 to 68 metres across and 9.2 metres high, and charcoal from a hearth at its base was radiocarbon dated to between 210 and 540 CE. Together the stones, mounds and ships show that round stone settings and ship settings stood side by side in the same cemeteries.
Dates are rarely secure. Where a setting has been excavated, its date comes from charcoal and finds, but most are dated only by form and by their neighbours.
When visiting, look for circles in grave fields beside mounds and ship settings, and for the kerb of a collapsed mound.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Stone circle, Wikipedia: Ship setting, Wikipedia: Anundshög, Wikipedia: Nordic Bronze Age · CC BY-SA 4.0
See it in 3D
An interpretive reconstruction of the monument, standing on the real ground at its exact point, under the sun for that place and season. Drag to look around it.
The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 2000 BCE–800 CEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for stone circles in Sweden; this site has not been dated itself. Swedish stone circles belong to the Bronze Age of the Nordic sphere (c. 2000-500 BC); during the Iron Age stone circles were built in southern Scandinavia whose Germanic Iron Age ends c. AD 800.Source for this date
Where it stands
Sweden
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 56°52′36″ N, 16°43′04″ EFor a GPS or map app: 56.87678, 16.71778
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.
- Stone circleKöping 48:22000 BCE–800 CE
- Stone circleKöping 48:32000 BCE–800 CE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Köping 243:12000 BCE–1050 CE
- Stone circleKöping 54:12000 BCE–800 CE
- Stone circleKöping 55:22000 BCE–800 CE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Köping 56:12000 BCE–1050 CE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Köping 60:12000 BCE–1050 CE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Sote hög el Sothög2000 BCE–1050 CE
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q29406158wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
Report a correctionWrong date, name, photograph or source? Tell us and it will be put right.
Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
Credit
Text, licence and sources
Compiled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a regional background article based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Wikidata Q29406158CC0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0
- en.wikipedia.orgCC BY-SA 4.0