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7 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Bronze Age to Viking Age (c.1000 BCE–1050 CE) · Baltic–Scandinavian (Gotland–Öland continuum)
Gettlinge, on the limestone alvar plain of southwest Öland, is a 2-km long grave field with 250+ monuments spanning late Bronze Age (c.1000 BCE) to Late Viking Age (c.1050 CE): a 30-m limestone ship…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Iron Age – Viking Age · Late Iron Age / Vendel-Viking Småland
Visingsö island ship settings to 35 m in Lake Vättern — Late Iron Age ships plus mounds in oak woodland grave fields.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Viking Age (with Iron Age grave field) · Late Viking Age Öland (Yngling / Danish sphere)
Öland's Öl 1 runestone (c.1000 CE) with full skaldic stanza standing among ship setting and mound — Viking megalithic transition.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Middle to Late Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Halland)
Two 4.5 m 'gallows' menhirs plus 18 m circle and 25 m ship on Halland coastal plain — saga-linked cemetery.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Bronze Age to Pre-Roman Iron Age (c.1100–500 BCE) · Nordic Bronze Age / Gotlandic
Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age stone ship on Gotland's west coast, 30 m long outline of limestone slabs forming a ship shape aligned roughly north–south with larger prow stone.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Middle Neolithic to Viking Age · Funnel Beaker → Bronze Age → Iron Age Scandinavia
3000-year grave field with Neolithic Girommen passage grave, Bronze cairn, Iron Age settings and Viking ship in one meadow.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Iron Age (with Neolithic antecedent landscape) · Late Iron Age Bohuslän
41 m stone ship of 49 granite blocks near Strömstad, one of Scandinavia's largest, among 26 graves.
