TITLE:
New Find of Six-Spoke Sun Wheels from the Bronze Age in Scandinavia
AUTHORS:
Nils-Axel Mörner, Bob G. Lind
KEYWORDS:
Sun Wheel, Stone Carving, Archaeoastronomy, Ales Stones, Scandinavia
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Vol.8 No.4,
November
7,
2018
ABSTRACT: Six-spoke Sun wheels have previously been described by us from Mesopotamia, rock-carvings in Sweden and a golden sky dome from Sweden. The division of the Sun wheel into six segments refers to the six double-months of 60 days, and a full annual cycle of 360 days. In this paper we report the findings of a stone carving with 9 six-spoke Sun wheels and two solar eclipses found and depicted in 1840 in Denmark. The spokes in the nine Sun wheels are in N-S, E-W and NW-SE direction. The NW-SE line co-insides with the sunset at summer solstice and sunrise at winter solstice, which is in full agreement with the alignment of the famous stone-ship of Ales Stones in southernmost Sweden. The new stone carving in Denmark provides a confirmation of the deep knowledge in astronomy existing among the Bronze Age people, all from Mesopotamia up the Scandinavia.