🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Anundshög & Anundshög Ship Setting
Bronze Age to Viking Age · Mälaren Iron Age
Anundshög & Anundshög Ship Setting in Västmanland, Sweden is a Bronze Age to Viking Age megalithic attributed to Mälaren Iron Age culture.
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CategoriesBurial mounds
Earth heaped over the dead: the most widespread monument humans ever built.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Bronze Age to Viking Age · Mälaren Iron Age
Anundshög & Anundshög Ship Setting in Västmanland, Sweden is a Bronze Age to Viking Age megalithic attributed to Mälaren Iron Age culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period (c.550–600 CE) · Vendel Period Scandinavia
Monumental Vendel Period tumulus at Vendel parish (Tierp) — 37 m diameter, 8 m high, excavated 1914 (Stolpe monument) with cremation of King Ottar Vendelcrowk (Ohthere) noted in Ynglingatal and…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period to Early Middle Ages (c.500–1150 CE) · Vendel Period Scandinavia / Early Swedish Kingdom
Magnate complex with three monumental Vendel Period royal burial mounds (Östhögen, Mellanhögen, Västhögen, 50–75 m diameter, 8–11 m high, c.550–600 CE), Thing mound and a 12th-century church on the…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Iron Age to Viking Age · Late Germanic Iron Age / Viking Age Svear
Sweden's largest burial mound — 14 m high with five stone ships and runestone, Iron Age to Viking royal cemetery.