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Hallunda Grave Cairn is probably from
the older part of the bronze age which in Scandinavia was between
1800-500 BC.
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.
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... :-)
The sloap down to the
lake.
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.
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!
There are three little
beaches along the shore. The water temperature may exceed 18
degrees Celsius already in June (we have a couple of indoor pools
too).
A glimpse of lake
Mälaren from the top of the cairn.
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.
Greetings for Rost and Spud!
The community cleaners haven't found it yet, and we are
certainly not going to tell them! ;-)
My excursion companion Henrik.
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
never been excavated.
In Winter Shroud
From
below
From
the top
From
beyond and below
Take
care, if you slip here it's downhill all the way
out into the lake.
Seen
from the shore.
The arrow points at the cairn.
Along
the shore.
A
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?
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.
Tired after the long walk uphill
again!
Very
tired!
Extremely
tired!
Exhausted!
Hallunda Manor
One
of the manors in the neighborhood that gave up
their land in the late sixties for Stockholm
city to expand.
Former
workers quarters.
Today privatly owned homes.
My guess!
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.
Take
an interactive aerial view at
Eniro
Utsikt,
so you can
get an idea of where on earth you just have been!
Use
the
tools
in
the
lower
left
corner
when
the
new
window
opens.
Click
on
"Helskärm"
which
means
"Full
Screen".
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
places!
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