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the older part of the bronze age which in Scandinavia was between
1800-500 BC.
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It is about 35m wide and 6m tall. It looks taller than it really is
because it is built upon a hillock above the pretty steep sloap down to
the southern shore of Rödstensfjärden (Red Stone Bay) in the lake
Mälaren.
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The paved road in the pictures and panorama changes behind the bushes to a dirt
path that twists down to the lake in a narrow gauge. Not quite
suitable for strollers either... :-)
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| The sloap down to the
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The view from top.
The bushes around have been cleared recently but
not carried away yet .
The old oak tree in previous pictures looks even worse for each
year. We noticed something was wrong three years ago.
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There is a nice walk
and bicycle road all the way along the shore, and plenty of
connections up and down just where people live above the shore.
The only one that is a little too steep is the one behind the
cairn. Our shortcut. Typical!
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beaches along the shore. The water temperature may exceed 18
degrees Celsius already in June (we have a couple of indoor pools
too).
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A glimpse of lake
Mälaren from the top of the cairn.
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A boat from Stockholm
out on a daily excursion. The church steeple to the right in the
picture is the Ekerö Church on the island Ekerö.
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Greetings for Rost and Spud!
The community cleaners haven't found it yet, and we are
certainly not going to tell them! ;-)
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My excursion companion Henrik.
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A bronze sword was found in a similar cairn on Aspberget
(Aspen Mountain) a ridge a mile south of here, in one of about 40 cairns
on top of the 70m high rock just north of Botkyrka Church.
This the Hallunda cairn is the largest of them all but it has
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In Winter Shroud
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below
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From
the top
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From
beyond and below
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care, if you slip here it's downhill all the way
out into the lake.
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Seen
from the shore.
The arrow points at the cairn.
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Along
the shore.
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couple of recent storms from the east has forced the
western part of the Baltic Sea to rise more than a meter, and it was
for a week or so higher than the water level in
lake Mälaren, so the sea water ran backwards in
through the locks in Stockholm and Södertälje.
This hasn't happen since 1880 or something. |
Isn't it a baby Moby
Dick?
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Now
when the level in the lake slowly goes back
to normal all the ice brakes and makes it
hazardous to even think of skating or
walking on it.
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Tired after the long walk uphill
again!
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tired!
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Extremely
tired!
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Exhausted!
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Hallunda Manor
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Hallunda
manor is one
of the manors in the neighborhood that gave up
their land in the late sixties for Stockholm
city to expand.
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manor
has its
special
place in
history
where
during
Christmas
in 1791
Jacob
Johan
Anckarström,
Claes
Horn and
Adolf
Ribbing,
noblemen
and
officers
close to
the
Swedish
king
begun
the
planning
for
revolution
and
assassination
of king
Gustav
III.
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The
assassination
did
really
occur,
on a
masked
ball at
the
Stockholm
opera
house on
March
16,
1792.
King
Gustav
was
surrounded
by a
group of
men
greeting
him with
the
French
words Bonjour,
beau
masque,
Good day
fine
mask,
which
was the
signal
for
Anckarström
who shot
one shot
in the
king's
back.
The king
stepped
a side
shouting
Ah!
Je suis
blessé,
tirez-moi
d'ici et
arrêtez-le,
Ah! I am
wounded,
take me
away
from
here,
and
arrest
that
man!
The
king
died two
weeks
later by
infection
in the
wound,
and his
last
words
was: I
feel
sleepy,
a few
moments
rest
would do
me good!
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Jacob
Johan
Anckarström
was
sentenced
to be
cast in
irons
for
three
days and
flogged.
His
right
hand was
cut off
just
before
he was
decapitated.
His
family
changed
their
name to
Löwenström
and as
some
sort of
compensation
they
started
a
hospital,
today
the
Löwenströmska
hospital
north of
Stockholm.
Daniel
Auber's
opera Gustave
III
and
Giuseppe
Verdi's Un
ballo in
maschera
(A
Masked
Ball)
are both
depicting
King
Gustav
III and
Jacob
Johan
Anckarström. |
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Former
workers quarters.
Today privatly owned homes.
My guess!
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Funny,
but a part of our rowhouse is visible behind
the trees just to the right of the barn. |
There
are so many beautiful details on this
carriage barn.
The two big doors are for our eyes only.
Look how the upper doors lower corners brake
into the lower doors.
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Hallunda
Grave Cairn is
the sixth significant spot in the so called "Hallunda
Culture Path", a three kilometer path through our community
with 13 different historic places, all of them connected to each other,
one way or another.
The first place is Slagsta
Rock Carvings, and the last is The
English Park. You are welcome for a view even at these
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Henrik
has regained his strength!
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