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<< Text Pages >> Levänluhta - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Finland

Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 04 September 2014  Page Views: 1799

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Levänluhta
Country: Finland
NOTE: This site is 5.449 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring

Latitude: 62.948731N  Longitude: 22.410409E
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Levänluhta is a swampy source known for mysterious prehistoric findings. About 100 people have been discovered buried in the former lake of Levänluhta in the Iron Age. Archaeologists have also found several remains of Bronze and Silver jewellery and tools.

There are remains of buried children, the elderly and animals of different ages. The human bones of Levänluhta are dated to 300-700 BC. They are historically thought to be sacrificed human victims, but the site can also be an ancient cemetery for people died of starvation or diseases.
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Re: Levänluhta by davidmorgan on Wednesday, 22 October 2014
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A paper by Anna Wessman: Levänluhta - A Place of Punishment, Sacrifice or just a Common Cemetery?
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Levänluhta – Iron Age water burial site of 100 humans by Andy B on Thursday, 04 September 2014
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Markku Oinonen writes:
In 1674 Alftanus, the reverend of Isonkyrö-village wrote that humans bones have risen up from the Levänluhta spring “throughout the ages”. Archaeological investigations on the site, situated near the Kyronjoki River, were conducted in 1886, 1912 and 1982–1984. Among the object discovered from the Levänluhta spring area were jewellery, wooden stakes, a bronze kettle – and the skeletal remains of ca. 100 individual humans. The site is unique in Northern Europe. The iron-rich red water foaming up through the ground in the springtime adds to the mysterical nature of the site.

The Laboratory of Chronology is taking part in a multidisciplinary research effort, coordinated by archaeologists form the University of Helsinki, and funded by the Eemil Aaltonen foundation, where the mysteries of the Levänluhta water burial site are investigated using archaeological and natural scientific methods . Radiocarbon datings will provide the timeline for interpretations of the people’s diet and subsistence patterns which will be studied based on stable isotope analyses of the bones.

http://www.luomus.fi/en/levanluhta-iron-age-water-burial-site-100-humans

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