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an email I just sent to the people running the Fornsök web page
Copying it here, since I went to the effort to write it, with a bizillion links...
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Hej!
This letter is to suggest you add a couple of references to the "Referenser" listing for L1969:2795 Gravfält Hålta 12:1:andThanks,
--Riia
PS, below follows a too-much-information description of why I feel these citations belong with this entry, which you can read or ignore, as you wish 🙂
I recently wrote to the Museum in Göteborg with questions about one of their artefacts (GM:7221).
They replied with a link to the report for the Ytter-Rystad excavations of 1914-1917, which talks of 31 graves being excavated, at Knapegården.
I tried to find the location, so I checked my three favourite map pages for details:
In the Ytter-Rystad area on GoogleMaps there is an "Anna på Knapegården" (an interior fitting contractor) showing on the map, with an address at Knapegården 110, 442 95 Hålta, giving me an idea of where in the region Knapegården must have been in 1914.
If one looks at the Lantmateriet web page, just across the street from that business is a hill with a bunch of burial mounds clearly visible in the Lidar image.
I first thought that these are the mounds from that excavation, except, if one checks the fornsök web page for those mounds the description doesn't mention 31 graves, but rather lists:
However, then I checked the Inventeringsbok: 1, and I see that yes, this is, in fact the grave field investigated by Sarauw in 1914-1917
*********************************************************
Hej!
This letter is to suggest you add a couple of references to the "Referenser" listing for L1969:2795 Gravfält Hålta 12:1:andThanks,
--Riia
PS, below follows a too-much-information description of why I feel these citations belong with this entry, which you can read or ignore, as you wish 🙂
I recently wrote to the Museum in Göteborg with questions about one of their artefacts (GM:7221).
They replied with a link to the report for the Ytter-Rystad excavations of 1914-1917, which talks of 31 graves being excavated, at Knapegården.
I tried to find the location, so I checked my three favourite map pages for details:
In the Ytter-Rystad area on GoogleMaps there is an "Anna på Knapegården" (an interior fitting contractor) showing on the map, with an address at Knapegården 110, 442 95 Hålta, giving me an idea of where in the region Knapegården must have been in 1914.
If one looks at the Lantmateriet web page, just across the street from that business is a hill with a bunch of burial mounds clearly visible in the Lidar image.
I first thought that these are the mounds from that excavation, except, if one checks the fornsök web page for those mounds the description doesn't mention 31 graves, but rather lists:
- Grav markerad av sten/block - Typ: rest sten, antal 1
- Hög - Form: rund, antal 18
- Stenkrets/stenrad - Form: domarring, Konstruktion: klumpstenar, antal 3
- Stenkrets/stenrad - Form: domarring, Konstruktion: resta stenar, antal 2
- Stensättning - Form: oval, Konstruktion: övertorvad, antal 2
- Stensättning - Form: rund, Konstruktion: övertorvad, antal 14
However, then I checked the Inventeringsbok: 1, and I see that yes, this is, in fact the grave field investigated by Sarauw in 1914-1917
