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Celtic and Prehistoric sacred sites in Sweden
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Ale's Stones (Ales Stenar)
Ystads kommun, Skåne, 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....
Amundtorp Grave Field
Varnhem, Västra Götaland, 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....
Askeberga Stone Ship
Tidan, Västra Götaland, 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....
Ekornavallen
Falköpings kommun, Västra Götaland, Sweden
In the pastoral landscape between Falköping and Varnhem, a single burial ground holds monuments spanning four millennia....
Greby grave field
Grebbestad, Västra Götaland, 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...
Hågahögen
Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
A massive earthen mound fifty metres across and three thousand years old stands in a quiet valley west of Uppsala....
Havängsdösen Dolmen
Simrishamns kommun, Skåne, 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...
Inglinge hög
Ingelstad, Kronoberg, 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...
Jättakullen Hällkista Dolmen
Vårgårda kommun, Västra Götaland, 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...
Luttra passage grave
Falköpings kommun, Västra Götaland, 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...
Skegriedösen
Kurland, Skåne, 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....
Stenshuvud's National Park
Simrishamns kommun, Skåne, Sweden
Stenshuvud rises ninety-seven meters from the flat Skane coastline, a rocky promontory visible from great distances over land and sea....
Styrdalen Valla Dolmen
Kållekärr, Västra Götaland, 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....
The King's Grave (Kungagraven)
Kivik, Skåne, 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...
The rock carvings of Tanum
Sotenäs kommun, Västra Götaland, 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....
Trollasten Dos Dolmen
Köpingebro, Skåne, 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....
Västra Strö Stone Circle
Eslövs kommun, Skåne, 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...
Vätteryd grave field
Tjörnarp, Skåne, Sweden
Skane's largest Iron Age grave field spreads across open heathland between Tjornarp and Sosdala. Fifteen stone ships point toward unseen horizons....
Vrångstads Long Dolmen
Tanums kommun, Västra Götaland, 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...
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This guide includes 19 sacred places within the Celtic and Prehistoric tradition in Sweden.
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