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<< Our Photo Pages >> Kyrkerör - Passage Grave in Sweden in Västergötland

Submitted by greywether on Friday, 12 November 2010  Page Views: 11844

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kyrkerör Alternative Name: Falköping 28:1
Country: Sweden
NOTE: This site is 0.182 km away from the location you searched for.
Landskap: Västergötland Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Falköping
Latitude: 58.167010N  Longitude: 13.553040E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Kyrkerör submitted by greywether : The best preserved of 15 passage graves in the town of Falköping. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Passage Grave in Västergötland. Any megalithic trip to Sweden has to include a visit to the town of Falköping and the surrounding area. The town itself has the remains of 15 passage graves (and there are another 25 or so megalithic or related sites that can be visited in the town as part of a guided walk - leaflet from the Falbygdens Museum in Falköping).

In the Falbygdens area there are the remains of 240 passage graves (out of around 370 for the whole of Sweden).

Having said that, many are very ruined. Of the 15 in Falköping, the best preserved is the one I have posted an image of. It is in the park just S of the museum in St Olofsgaten.

Note: New interpretations of the Stone Age landscape in central Västergötland, Sweden
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Kyrkerör submitted by neolithique02 : From the museum, 20 megaliths can be visited in Falkoping area. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kyrkerör submitted by NeolithicFanatic : The passage is well preserved together with the rest of the tomb. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kyrkerör submitted by DrewParsons : View from the museum side of the site illustrating the huge capstone and chamber with the passage to the left. september 2011. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kyrkerör submitted by DrewParsons : The site was damaged due to road construction in the 19th century and reconstructed in 1928. September 2011. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kyrkerör submitted by DrewParsons : View illustrating the largest of the capstones, and the mound which measures 16 metres by 14 metres. September 2011. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Kyrkerör submitted by DrewParsons : View into the 7 metre long and 1 metre wide passage with the chamber (7.6 metres by 1.7 metres at its maximum) behind it. September 2011.

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Kyrkerör submitted by Tonnox : Kirkerör. Passage grave in centrum of Falköping. More information in the buttom the main page. Foto august 2021

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Kyrkerör submitted by Tonnox : Kirkerör. Foto august 2021

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Kyrkerör submitted by Tonnox : Kyrkerör. Foto august 2021

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Kyrkerör submitted by NeolithicFanatic : It's quite impressive that such a well preserved tomb is situated in the local park.

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Kyrkerör submitted by NeolithicFanatic : The back of the burial chamber.

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Kyrkerör submitted by NeolithicFanatic : The passage leading into the burial chamber.

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Kyrkerör submitted by DrewParsons : The site sign. September 2011.

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Re: Kyrkerör by Tonnox on Tuesday, 01 February 2022
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Forsök, Riksantikvarieämbetet, Sweden
Kirkerör, Falköping 28:1
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Kringla: Riksantikvarieämbetet, Sweden
Kirkerör, Falköping 28:1

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Re: Kyrkerör by DrewParsons on Monday, 10 October 2011
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I have worked through the old Falköping page as there were photos for several different sites on that one page. I have created new pages for all sites with existing photos and renamed the Falköping page to reflect the site illustrated in its lead photo which is Kyrkerör. I have checked and all the existing photos now attach jto their correct site pages (and to no other pages!!). This is part of the process of adding my photos from a recent visit to the area.
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    Re: Kyrkerör by Martin_L on Tuesday, 11 October 2011
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    Great. Thanks for sorting out the Falköping sites and adding photos and descriptions of the sites.
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New interpretations of the Stone Age landscape in Falbygden by Andy B on Friday, 12 November 2010
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The Falbygden area of central Västergötland in southwestern Sweden is home to one of northern Europe's greatest concentrations of megalithic graves from the New Stone Age (approx. 4000-1500 BC). A new archaeology thesis from the University of Gothenburg now shows that these “passage graves” were not designed to be visible across wide areas – instead they seem to be almost hidden within the landscape.

Tony Axelsson, doctoral student and archaeologist at the Västergötland Museum, has investigated what the Stone Age landscape in Falbygden actually looked like, and how the people of the time related to their surroundings.

Using a geographical information system (GIS) into which he entered relics in the form of passage graves, settlements and stray finds, he has been able to produce digital maps of the prehistoric landscape. His analyses reveal, among other things, that the passage graves do not seem to have been designed to be seen from great distances.

“I don't believe that the passage graves were built to take control of the landscape, to make it less dangerous, or as a conscious effort to tame it, that as soon as a grave was built the landscape seemed safe,” says Axelsson.

Another clear pattern he has discovered is how the immediate vicinity of the passage graves is largely empty of traces of human activity in the form of known finds such as amber, flint and animal bones.

“The conclusion is that settlements and passage graves were kept apart from one another – there was some kind of spatial separation.”

Axelsson’s thesis also discusses archaeological interpretation models. He argues in favour of landscape archaeology moving away from visualised landscapes in favour of living landscapes.

“By hypothetically characterising the landscape and using descriptive verbs and adjectives such as dangerous, boring or beautiful, it is possible to discuss how complex and diverse a landscape is,” he explains. “This kind of approach is often lacking in current archaeology. Our perception of a landscape does not come solely from visual impressions, but also through our other senses and, not least, mental imagery.”

The thesis has been successfully defended.

It looks very interesting (if you read Swedish) and can be downloaded here:
http://hdl.handle.net/2077/22563

Source:
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=87764&CultureCode=en

Ph.D. dissertation at University of Gothenburg, Sweden 2010.
Title: Landskap – visuella och rumsliga relationer i Falbygdens neolitikum.
English title: Landscape – visual and spatial relationships in Neolithic Falbygden.
Author: Tony Axelsson
Language: Swedish with summary in English
Department: Department of historical studies, University of Gothenburg, Box 200,
SE-40530 Göteborg
Series: Gotarc series B. Gothenburg Archaeological Theses nr 53. Coast to coast-
book nr 19
ISSN: 0282-6860
ISBN: 978- 91-85245-44-5
ISSN: 1404-1251
ISBN: 978-91-974715-8-9
This thesis focuses on the complex and ambiguous concept of “landscape”. Briefly
stated, the thesis aims to:

1) problematise landscape as a concept and show the difficulties and opportunities
arising from its complex and ambiguous nature,
2) problematise geographic infor-
mation systems (GIS) as analysis tools,
3) discuss the visual and spatial relations-
hips presented by Neolithic Falbygden.

The archaeological material in this thesis is largely made up of surface-collected
artefacts, stray finds, settlement sites (i.e. accumulations of finds) and passage gra-
ves. Four areas of analysis have been adhered to in studying the material. Ba

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Re: Falköping by greywether on Sunday, 25 September 2005
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All the passage graves in Falkoping are photographed and their streetname locations are given in this English site
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