🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Ale's Stones
Late Nordic Iron Age (Vendal period) · Late Iron Age Scandinavia (proto-Viking)
67 m Iron Age stone ship of 59 boulders on Baltic ridge near Ystad with solstitial alignments, c.600 CE.
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95 places in the atlas, 9 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Nordic Iron Age (Vendal period) · Late Iron Age Scandinavia (proto-Viking)
67 m Iron Age stone ship of 59 boulders on Baltic ridge near Ystad with solstitial alignments, c.600 CE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Viking Age Scandinavian 750–975 (8th–10th c) · Scandinavian Viking Age (Svear) — Svear–Gotlandic emporium
Birka (Björkö) — Scandinavian Viking Age emporium (c.750–975 CE) on Björkö island in Lake Mälaren, 30 km west Stockholm, Sweden's oldest town and UNESCO 555 (with Hovgården Adelsö estate).
