🇸🇪 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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🇸🇪 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 · Tumulus
Vendel Period (c.550–600 CE) · Vendel Period Scandinavia
Monumental Vendel Period tumulus at Vendel parish (Tierp) — 37 m diameter, 8 m high, excavated 1914 (Stolpe monument) with cremation of King Ottar Vendelcrowk (Ohthere) noted in Ynglingatal and…
