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Widely accepted, excavated places tagged “viking”

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Runestones

🇷🇺Russia

🇸🇪 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.

≈AcceptedUNESCO

🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort

Fyrkat Viking Ringfort

Viking Age (c.980 CE) · Danish Viking Age

Viking ringfort 120 m diameter near Hobro, North Jutland, contemporary with Trelleborg (Harald Bluetooth), with identical four-gate geometry and 16 houses plus a cemetery of 30 graves including wagon…