Blomsholm Stone Ship
Blomsholm Skeppssättning
Late Iron Age (with Neolithic antecedent landscape)·Late Iron Age Bohuslän·🇸🇪 Västra Götaland, Bohuslän, Sweden
About
About Blomsholm Stone Ship
One of largest stone ship settings in Scandinavia: 41 m long x 9 m wide ship outline of 49 granite blocks up to 2.5 m high on ridge at Blomsholm near Strömstad, Bohuslän. Associated with adjacent Blomsholm dolmen passage grave and 13 stone circles and gräberfeld with 26 graves spanning Neolithic to Iron Age. Dated to Late Iron Age c.400–600 CE but landscape multi-period.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Spacing of 49 stones — crew symbolism?
Theories
- 01Elite ship burial faith without surviving mound
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 400–600 CE (ship); dolmen c.3000 BCE nearby
- Period
- Late Iron Age (with Neolithic antecedent landscape)
- Culture
- Late Iron Age Bohuslän
- Purpose
- Stone ship burial marker
- Abandoned
- c.800 CE
- Rediscovered
- Recorded 18th century; survey 1980s
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 400–600 CE (ship); dolmen c.3000 BCE nearby
Initial construction
c. 1208 CE
Major expansion
On the ground
Structures & features
59.0333° N · 11.2569° E · 40 m · 1 mapped feature
Ship Setting
stone ship49-block ship outline 41 m on ridge
59.0333° N · 11.2569° E
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