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A 5.000 year old grave monument with its entrance point to the east.
© Foto Bob G Lind
The entrance of the grave chamber from the east.
© Foto Bob G Lind
The sunrise at 06.00 at the vernal- and autumnal equinox.
Photo taken from inside the grave chamber
The Haväng Dolmen
In the Dolmen at Haväng an important person was buried during the
neolithic period, i.e. about 5.000 years ago. Therefore the geographical
and astronomical placing of the Dolmen at Haväng, must have been
of great importance. The entrance to this stone chamber grave is oriented
in such a way that the sun rising from the seahorizon at the time of
the vernal and autumnal equinoxes shines into the chamber from
06.00 to 06.20. This shows that the people who built the Haväng
Dolmen had an extremely precise knowledge of calendar time.
Findings
During an excavation of this burial chamber in 1869 only a few human
skeleton parts and a flint axe were found - indicating that the grave
had already been visited by grave robbers.
The size of the burial chamber
Some data: The burial chamber is 1,65 x 0,60 m. The roof block is 2,7
x 2,0 m. The height of the dolmen is 1,25 m. The 16 surrounding stones
are 0,6 m to 1,20 m high. The area is 12 x 5,5 meters..
Sunrise in the east at the vernal- and autumnal equinox.
© Foto Bob G Lind
Archaeoastronomical studies show that the culture
people of prehistory often had very advanced knowledge of astronomy
and mathematics
Ref, ”Ales stenar ur ett arkeoastronomiskt perspektiv”. The book can be ordered by e-mail: boblind50@gmail.com
or by phone: +46 40 54 52 94, Stjärnljusets förlag V.Rönneholmsvägen 76d, 217 41 Malmö, Sweden.
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