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Ca 1500 ago, a powerful family built a grave mound for their ancestor here. A large stone and a round stone were placed on the top of the grave mound. The round stone was decorated with ornamental borders, carved by a master. The stones were later called "The throne of the Kings of Värend". Today we call the gravemound itself Inglinge mound. When Inglinge mound was built, the area had already been used for burial for several hundred years. All in there are about 130 graves in the grave-field. A now rather damaged cairn northeast of Inglinge mound is probably the oldest. It may have been built as early as in the Bronze Age c. 3 500 years ago. Inglinge mound itself, and the somewhat smaller mound beside it, were built around the middle or the first millenium A.D. The monument can be compared with other similar big mounds in Central Sweden, i.e. the mounds at Old Uppsala and the mound of Anund in Västerås. These big mounds served several purposes. They indicate that the place was sacred, reserved for ancestral cult and religious ceremonies. they also showed that the king, whose ancestors rested in the mounds, had the right to both the religious and the worldly power. Some experts have considered that court sessions (Thing) were held on the mound. It is known that other places with big mounds have been used for sessions. Up until 1926 sessions were in fact also held in Ingelstad, but not on the monument. In the 1930's the archaeologist Erik Floderus examined four or the graves in the spot. All of them contained remains from the pyre on which the dead had been burnt. Three of the graves were from the Viking Age, from the time between 800 and 1050 A.D. The fourth grave was somewhat older; it could be dated back to the 8:th century A.D. Stone circles are the most common form of grave on the grave-field. They are low graves; sometimes people have put stones all over the grave, sometimes they are marked only with corner-stones. The stone circles also have different shapes; the most common is the oval. There are also three smaller graves and two stoneships on the spot. The corner-stones of the ships make a gumwale, seen from above. In three cases a grave has been marked with only an erected stone.
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