Hågahögen is a monumental Bronze Age burial mound in Håga, west of Uppsala. Excavated in 1902–03, it proved far older than its later name Kung Björns hög suggests. Its gold and bronze grave goods connect an exceptional burial to a lived-in landscape with settlements from many periods.
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Oscar Almgren’s 1902–03 excavation dated the mound to about 1100–1000 BCE, rather than the Viking Age suggested by its King Björn name.
Grave goods included a gold-decorated bronze sword, razors, tweezers and a gold-covered spectacle-shaped brooch; the finds are held by the Swedish History Museum.
Upplandsmuseet’s excavations near Håga found Bronze Age settlement layers partly contemporary with the mound, as well as remains from later periods.
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A grass-covered mound rises above Hågadalen, west of Uppsala. Its popular name, Kung Björns hög—King Björn’s mound—sounds like a Viking royal tomb. Excavation revealed a much older and more surprising story: this is a monumental burial from the Bronze Age, around 1100–1000 BCE, richly furnished with gold and bronze. The name is a later tradition; the grave cannot be identified as that of the saga king.
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