Luttra Ganggrift (Luttra Passage Grave)
Luttra Gånggrift · Falbygden Luttra grave
Middle Neolithic·Funnel Beaker (TRB) — Falbygden group·🇸🇪 Västra Götaland, Falbygden, Falköping, Sweden
About
About Luttra Ganggrift (Luttra Passage Grave)
Classic Falbygden passage grave in Sweden's densest megalithic concentration (250+ tombs around Falköping): 19 m long mound with 9 m passage to 7 m long chamber of limestone slabs, with keyhole portal. Built c.3300 BCE Funnel Beaker (TRB), used for successive collective burials into Late Neolithic. Exhibits Falbygden's distinctive limestone slab construction (local Ordovician). Excavated yielding amber beads, flint daggers and human remains; landscape of Hornborgasjön bird lake ritual geography.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Falbygden density — why 250 tombs in 30 km radius?
Theories
- 01Limestone plain territorial competition producing prestige tomb propagation
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 3300–3000 BCE
- Period
- Middle Neolithic
- Culture
- Funnel Beaker (TRB) — Falbygden group
- Purpose
- Collective passage tomb for farming community
- Abandoned
- Late Neolithic
- Rediscovered
- Recorded 19th century; modern excavation 1960s
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 3300–3000 BCE
Initial construction
c. 1230 CE
Major expansion
On the ground
Structures & features
58.1150° N · 13.5330° E · 180 m · 1 mapped feature
Passage and chamber
passage tomb9 m passage to 7 m chamber with limestone orthostats
58.1150° N · 13.5330° E
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