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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Girommen Alternative Name: Gigerugnen, RAÂ-nummer: Hornborga 31:1Country: Sweden Landskap: Västergötland Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Falköbimg Nearest Village: Boddetorp
Latitude: 58.279470N Longitude: 13.602630E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Tonnox visited on 1st Aug 2021 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4
Girommen. Passage grave.
This passage grave is called Girommen, which means “the Giant’s oven”. People former belived that “Giantess of Brunnhemsberget” prepared and cooked her food here. A passage grave has a sepulchral chamber and a passage which is directed eastward. The dead was buried in the sepulchral chamber with grave gifts such as beads made of amber or animal teeth, axes of polished flint, and other stone tools. The graves was also meeting places for the living. Here they made sacifices and preformed ritual acts.
There is about 250 passage graves in Falbygden around the town Falköbing.
There are many cupmarks on one of the capstones.
Foto juli 2021
More information: Kringla, Riksantikvarieämbetet Sweden.
Girommen
More information: Fornsök, Riksantikvarieämbetet Sweden.
Gigerugnen
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