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Celtic and Prehistoric sacred sites in Sweden
Explore Celtic and Prehistoric sacred sites in Sweden: pilgrimage places, living traditions, heritage landmarks, and sacred landscapes.
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The rock carvings of Tanum
Sotenäs kommun, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Scattered across the Swedish landscape of Tanum are over 600 rock panels bearing tens of thousands of images carved between 1700 and 500 BCE....
Styrdalen Valla Dolmen
Kållekärr, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
The Valla Dos rises from a low hill on the island of Tjorn like a mushroom carved from granite, its capstone balanced on supporting stones for five millennia....
Stenshuvud's National Park
Simrishamns kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
Stenshuvud rises ninety-seven meters from the flat Skane coastline, a rocky promontory visible from great distances over land and sea....
Vätteryd grave field
Tjörnarp, Skåne län, Sweden
Skane's largest Iron Age grave field spreads across open heathland between Tjornarp and Sosdala. Fifteen stone ships point toward unseen horizons....
Trollasten Dos Dolmen
Köpingebro, Skåne län, Sweden
The Trollasten dolmen rises from a farmer's field near Ystad in southern Sweden, a single capstone balanced on six uprights since roughly 3300 BCE....
Ekornavallen
Falköpings kommun, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
In the pastoral landscape between Falköping and Varnhem, a single burial ground holds monuments spanning four millennia....
Skegriedösen
Kurland, Skåne län, Sweden
Skegriedosen stands in a Skane meadow surrounded by seventeen standing stones, a peaked capstone sheltering a chamber once designed for a single seated burial....
Greby grave field
Grebbestad, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
On a coastal hillside north of Grebbestad, more than two hundred Iron Age graves spread across the Bohuslan landscape, their burial mounds crowned by standing stones that...
The King's Grave (Kungagraven)
Kivik, Skåne län, Sweden
The King's Grave at Kivik is singular. Beneath a cairn seventy-five meters across, a stone cist bears rock carvings depicting solar crosses, chariots, processional...
Inglinge hög
Ingelstad, Kronobergs län, Sweden
Inglinge hog dominates its Smaland landscape: a burial mound thirty-seven meters across and six meters high, crowned by a standing stone and an ornate stone sphere known...
Västra Strö Stone Circle
Eslövs kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
On a low mound in the flat agricultural plain northwest of Eslov, seven stones form a circle erected by a Viking Age farmer named Fader to honor his dead brother and...
Ale's Stones (Ales Stenar)
Ystads kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
On a windswept ridge above the fishing village of Kaseberga, fifty-nine massive boulders form the outline of a ship sixty-seven metres long....
Havängsdösen Dolmen
Simrishamns kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
Havangsdosen stands on the wind-swept Osterlen steppe above the Baltic Sea, a 5,500-year-old dolmen whose chamber opening faces the sunrise on the spring and autumn...
Vrångstads Long Dolmen
Tanums kommun, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
On a rocky hilltop near Bottna in Sweden's Tanum municipality, a twenty-three-meter-long dolmen with nine surrounding menhirs has anchored the landscape in ancestral...
Askeberga Stone Ship
Tidan, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Near the village of Tidan in Vastergotland, twenty-four boulders weighing up to thirty tonnes each stand arranged in an oval formation fifty-five metres long....
Luttra passage grave
Falköpings kommun, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
The Luttra passage grave sits in the Falbygden landscape of Vastergotland, where roughly two-thirds of all Sweden's passage graves are concentrated within a...
Amundtorp Grave Field
Varnhem, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
On the western slope of Billingen, overlooking Lake Hornborga, forty-two stone formations from the Iron Age Migration Period cluster across an open meadow....
Hågahögen
Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden
A massive earthen mound fifty metres across and three thousand years old stands in a quiet valley west of Uppsala....
Jättakullen Hällkista Dolmen
Vårgårda kommun, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Jattakullen rises from a hilltop between the Nossan river and the plains of Vastergotland, its fourteen-meter stone cist making it the largest hallkista in the entire...
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