Sagaholm

'''Sagaholm''' is the site of [[Bronze Age]] burial mounds (''Sagaholmshögen''). Sagaholm is located in Ljungarums parish just south of [[Jönköping]] in [[Småland, Sweden]]. [[File:Sagaholm profil k-kedja-red.jpg|thumb|250 px|Sagaholmshögen)]]

==Sagaholmshögen== Sagaholmshögen is a [[cairn]] dating from the early [[Nordic Bronze Age]] (c. 1700–500 BC). The site had a large [[tumulus|barrow]] with a circle of slabs of [[sandstone]], probably numbering as many as 100. The Bronze Age graves were built in the form of a mound. Around 1,500 years after the grave was built, another four smaller graves were constructed at the foot of the mound. Only 45 graves remain, with 18 of them adorned with [[petroglyph]]s depicting ships, animals and people, including scenes of [[zoophilia]]. The finds are presently on display in Jönköpings County Museum (''Jönköpings läns museum'') in Jönköping. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://jonkopingslansmuseum.se/se-och-gora/kalender/utstallningar/sagaholmshogen/ |title= Sagaholmshögen|website= Jönköpings läns museum |access-date=September 1, 2020}}</ref>

==See also== *[[The King's Grave]] *[[Trundholm sun chariot]] *[[Skelhøj]]

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==Sources== *Goldhahn, Joakim (2006) ''Om döda och efterlevande med exempel från Bredrör, Skelhøj, Sagaholm och Mjeltehaugen'' (Bergen, Norway: "Arkeologiske Skrifter". Pg 283–303) {{ISBN|9171914897}}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110907011750/http://home.online.no/~wen-mja/ontherocks/sagaholm.htm Sagaholm] *[https://jonkopingslansmuseum.se/ Jönköpings läns museum website]

[[Category:Nordic Bronze Age]] [[Category:Germanic archaeological sites]] [[Category:Archaeological sites in Sweden]] [[Category:Geats]] [[Category:Zoophilia]] [[Category:Jönköping Municipality]]