🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Ales Stones – Kåseberga Stone Ship
Late Iron Age Vendel–Viking transition · Scandinavian Late Vendel to Viking (pre-Christian)
59-stone 67-m Viking Age stone ship aligned solstitially over the Baltic at Kåseberga.
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🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Iron Age Vendel–Viking transition · Scandinavian Late Vendel to Viking (pre-Christian)
59-stone 67-m Viking Age stone ship aligned solstitially over the Baltic at Kåseberga.
🇸🇪 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
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.
🇸🇪 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.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Iron Age–Viking (500 BCE–1050 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age
Sweden's greatest burial field (14 ha) at Anundshög–Badelunda 9 km NE of Västerås: 14 m high 60 m diameter Anund mound (c.550 CE), 12 smaller mounds, 9 stone ships (largest 53×16 m), 12 stone circles…