Gostabacken - gravfält och skattfynd

Graveyard
is in woodland on the left side next to the road just under 150 m before they open
the lands around Torlarp. The road has cut through the elevation where the burial ground
is located and it can be difficult to perceive from the road.

The area around Lagan is rich in remains from younger people
Iron Age (500-1050 AD). This particular burial ground is one of the smaller ones with approx
15 graves. The burial ground testifies that one or a couple of families used it
the place as a resting place for their dead. In all probability, one has lived in
nearby but we don't know where. Just a short distance from here, one has been found
buried coin hoard that is contemporary with the burial ground.

It was an August day in 1875 and the crofter Karl Magnusson was
out in the field when the home owner Johan Jönsson came by. Johan stopped the oxen
and sat down to rest and watched as Karl threw up a spade of earth.
It flashed white metal and Johan curiously began poking at it with the whip handle
the earth. There was a quantity of silver coins and the two men searched carefully
the place. When they were done, they had found nearly 200 coins and parts of one
silver bracelet. A few years later, an agricultural meeting was held in Ljungby there
the governor attended. Johan told about the find in the field. The governor must have
replied: "Go home after that old man, and we'll see how it looks!" Johan
sent his son all the way home after the find. When the son returned looked
the governor looked closely at the tax and redeemed it for 30 kroner. The tax had
was dug up sometime in the 11th century just in the transition between the Viking Age and
Middle Ages. The coins came from Germany, England and Denmark. Some distance from the place
where the silver treasure was found is a burial ground that is usually called
"Gostabacken". The burial ground consists of 15 burial mounds. Several of
the piles have been badly damaged, probably because gravel has been taken from
the place.

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