Author(s)

Nils-Axel Mörner^1*, Bob G. Lind²

¹Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics, Stockholm, Sweden.
²Archaeoastronomy, Malmö, Sweden.

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.

Sun Wheel, Stone Carving, Archaeoastronomy, Ales Stones, Scandinavia

Mörner, N. and Lind, B. (2018) New Find of Six-Spoke Sun Wheels from the Bronze Age in Scandinavia. International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8, 299-305. doi: 10.4236/ijaa.2018.84021.