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This stone circle (judge’s ring) is 18 metres in diameter and consists of 22 stones, which is between 0,6 to 1,2 metres high. In the centre of the circle there is a low stone. During a examination and restoring project in 1940, a burnt human was found in the centre, together with a cup made of glass, a sharpening stone and a comb made of bone.

Infoboard on site in Swedish, English and German.

The stones itself can’t be seen in GE, but you can see a circular clearcut in the forest north or the road.

How to get there
From the museum of rock carvings at Vitlycke, drive for 8,6 kilometres southward, on the tarmac road west of the museum.
Turn left onto the gravel road where you see the ‘sightings sign’ and drive for 1,9 kilometres, and the site is on your left

The name Greby gave the nearby village Grebbestad its name. The first part, Gre, comes from the norse word grjot, which means ‘stony ground’.
Around 200 elliptic and circular mounds are found here, many of them with with an erected stone at the top, others with a chain of smaller stones around the edges. 10 graves have been examined, and it has been concluded that the field was built around 200-600 CE

There is infoboards on site in Swedish, English and German.

How to get there:
Take off highway E6 and turn into the town of Tanumshede. When there, turn right onto road 163, towards Grebbestad. After about 5,4 kilometres (about 1 kilometre before Grebbestad) you’ll find a parking spot to your left. Park there and walk on the gravel road for 250 metres.

The site can be seen in GE

Ledbergs kulle is the area’s largest burial mound, about 40-50 metres in diametre and 6-7 metres high. There are farms in the area with names that have to do with the centre of power that existed here during the iron age. No excavations have been made but sample tests indicate that the mound is from the later iron age (800-1000CE), and a merovingian gold ring, dating from 500-600CE has been found nearby. But since large burial mounds also were made during the bronze age, it could as well be from that time era.

Info board on site in Swedish and English

How to get there:
On highway E4, take the west exit to Linköping onto road 34. After about 800 metres, turn right. Continue on the new road for 4.1 kilometres, then turn right at the blue sign “Ledberg 2”. Continue for about 2.3 kilometres, and the barrow is on your right.

The cairn is about 10 metres in diametre.

The treudd (tri-radial cairn) is also special, it has 2 big standing stones as centre-stones. The length of the edges are about 12 metres, and they point in 72, 108 and 306 degrees respectively.

Fagertofta grave field is an impresive one. Of 42 visible graves, over half of them are stone rings. One of the rings is of a peculiar construction of which i have seen only in one place before: Torsa stenar. It consists of 6 ‘mini-dolmens’, with three stones and one capstone each.

The site was restored in 1941-42

The stone rings can be seen in GE

Info post on site in Swedish, English and German

How to get there:
On road 31, take the exit at Nässjö with ths signs “Nässjö C”, “Andersberg” and “Solberga” (all at the same exit) and drive northwards for 2.9 kilometres. When you see a white sign “Gravfält 1”, follow the sign and turn onto the gravel road.

The last part of the road is quite narrow, i don’t recommend to drive it if you have a caravan or a big ‘house-car’, but it’s only a 900 metre walk from the big road, and i really recommend a visit.

In the same area as Torsa Stenar, is one of Sweden’s largest treudd (tri-radial cairn). Its sides are 17 metres long, and it points in NNW, ENE and
SSW directions.

The main monuments on this site are a square stone setting, with ‘mini-dolmens’ in the corners. So far, I have only seen these in one other place, Fagertofta gravfält.

Then there are 3 stone circles, 3.5, 7 and 10 metres in diameter. Directly beside the biggest one are 4 other stones, forming a square, or a small ‘avenue’ into the stone circle.

The stone circle can be seen in GE.

Info post on site in Swedish, English and German.

How to get there
Take the road from Nässjö towards Grimstorp and Bodafors. After about 5 kilometres, you will see a white sign “Torsa Stenar” pointing to the right. Turn and follow the gravel road for 1.1 kilometres, and the site is to your right.

The skibsaetnings in Böckersboda lies on a ridge along an ancient road.
The first one is 30 x 8 metres, and points in NNE – SSW direction. The second one is 17 x 8 metres, and points in NE – SW direction.

They were excavated and restored in 1950 by the county museum. Each ship contained a cremation grave, measuring about 50 x 50 centimetres, located about in the centre of the ships, and contained burnt bones, coal and ash. One grave also contained fragments of a horn comb and dominoes mad of bone. These finds can now be seen at the national Historical Museum in Stockholm.

Info post on site in Swedish, English and German.

The ships can be seen in GE.

How to get there:
after about 15.3 kilometres north of the north exit to Mariestad on highway E20, turn right (if you pass the bridge over the Göta kanal channel, you’ve drove too far). After 1.85 kilometres, you’ll pass the a.m. channel. Turn left after 240 metres and continue for 560 metres, where you will see a blue sign “Skeppssättning” to the left. Follow the signs and you are at the spot.

The grave field of Lekebacken were used for a very long time – the oldest part is the cairn (17 metres in diametre), which probably dates back to 3000BCE, and the youngest ones is the low earth mounds that is scattered around the area – about 1000 years old. The graves has not been investigated, so the ages are estimates made by the Swedish National Heritage board.

The stone circle is 13 metres in diametre and consiste of 9 stones, 1.2 to 2 metres high.

Info post on site in Swedish, English and German.

The stone ring can be seen in GE.

How to get there:
From highway E20, take the exit to road 51 just south of Kumla, and drive for about 7.6 kilometres. Take left towards Kumla, and immediately left again, so you drive under road 51. Follow this road for 300 metres, then turn right and drive for 1 kilometre. Site and parking spot to the right.

The passage grave in Tolarp is the biggest megalithic tomb in southern Halland and is almost 5000 years old. The chamber is 2.5 x 6.5 metres, and the passage is 4.5 metres long. It was investigated ande restored 1926.

I forgot to take a compass reading of the passage, i’ll try to do it the next time I pass the area.

Info board on site in Swedish and English.

How to get there:
At Halmstad, take the exit from highway E20 to road 25 towards Ljungby. Drive 1.5 kilometres and take the 1st exit in the roundabout. After 50 metres, turn left at the blue sign “Mästkocka”. After 700 metres, turn left after the church, at the sign “26 Mästkocka”. Drive for 4.1 kilometres, then turn left at yellow signs “2 Tolarp” and “Gånggrift”. After 1.1 kilometres the site is on the left, and parking spot to the right after further 10 metres.

This barrow was partially excavated in 1972. Then the archaeologists found out that the barrow is built on a natural hill, so the barrow itself measures 40 metres in diametre, and 4 metres high, the total including the natural hill is 50-60 metres in diametre and 7 metres high.

The name ‘Ivars kulle’ (Ivar’s hill) traces back to a man with the name Givar Gunnarsson, who in the years 1717-1756 owned the land around it.

Info board on site in Swedish, English and German.

How to get there:
The barrow is southeast of the crossing between highway E20 and road 26, visible from the highway. Take the exit to road 26 towards Smålandsstenar, and turn right after 300 metres at the sign ‘Sperlingsholm’. The site is after another 300 metres.

Rössberga gånggrift is the only passage grave that has been completely examined in Falköping municipality.
It was examined and restored in 1962 by Mr. Carl Cullberg.
It was used to bury people for almost 2400 years.
The chamber were at the beginning 2 metres high, and consisted of 17 sections, in where there were piles of human bones. In total the remains of 128 adults were found in the sections, which is more than in any other megalithic tomb in Scandinavia. Together with the remains also some animal bones, amber pearls, different pearls made of animal bone, flint stones. At the entrance over 700 pieces of pottery shards were found and c14 dating of these places them bout 3600BCE.
20 metres east of the passage grave there is a stone cist.

How to get there:
Follow the directions for Ekornavallen, then continue south for 5.7 kilometres. Site and parking spot is on the left.

The chamber is about 13 x 2 metres, and the passage is about 10 metres long. All the stones, except for the keystone, which is a granite block, are sandstones.
The passage grave was partly restored in 1946.

The passage grave can be seen in GE.

Ekornavallen has been used as a burial place fo at least 4000 years, which makes this site one of the most remarkable sites in Sweden. The oldest is the passage graves (the biggest one, Girommen, is presented on a sub-site) and one stone cist, built for 4-5000 years ago. Up on the crest of the hill, there is a bronze age cairn, about 3000 years old. The youngest graves is from the iron age and consists of stone settings, standing stones and stone circles (judge rings) and a tri-radial cairn.

Because of the unique mix of remains from different eras, the site were early noted. The earliest (but uncertain) written info is in the Västgötalagen (the code of Västergötland) from the 13th century.

During the 18th and 19th century Ekornavallen was visited by several archaeologists, from their maps we can see that there were many more monuments than there are now.

In order to save the area from further destruction, the site was bought by the state in 1944, and is now taken care of by the Swedish national heritage board.

There are many info boards in the area, in Swedish, English and German.

The site can be seen in GE.

How to get there:
On road 49 between Skara and Skövde, turn south in Varnhem towards
Broddetorp, ( as for the Amundtorp and Lilla lycke sites). After 10 kilometres you arrive to the village Boddetorp. Drive through and continue for 3.2 kilometres. Parking spot to the left, and the site to the right.

This passage grave lies on a mound, which is about 20 x 19 metres and 1.6 metres high.
The chamber is a rectangle, 9 x 2.6 metres.

this passage grave, together with Klövagårdens gånggrift ,Ragnvalds grav and Logårds kulle is north of the road, while the farms is on the south. It has been accepted that this configuration has been the sami since the stone age, which makes the road Sweden’s oldest that is still in use.

How to get there:
From the city of Falköping, take road 47 southeast for 4.3 kilometres, then turn left at the blue sign “Karleby”.
Drive for 1.5 kilometres and there is a parking spot on your left.
Walk northwards, pass Logärds kulle, and the next passage grave is the site.

This passage grave lies on a mound, which is about 27 x 11 metres and 2.0 metres high. The chamber is a rectangle, 11 x 2.5 metres, and the passage is 8 metres long. The grave was examined in 1874 by Montelius and Retxius and an arrowhead of flintstone, amber pearls, 3 bone needles, 2 teeth with a hole drilled through and burnt and unburnt human- and animal bones.

This passage grave, together with Klövagårdens gånggrift, Ragnvalds grav, and Haragårdens gånggrift is north of the road, while the farms is on the south. It has been accepted that this configuration has been the sami since the stone age, which makes the road Sweden’s oldest that is still in use.

How to get there:
From the city of Falköping, take road 47 southeast for 4.3 kilometres, then turn left at the blue sign “Karleby”. Drive for 1.5 kilometres and there is a parking spot on your left. Walk westwards towards Ragnvalds Grav, then follow the track north in the field to the site.

This passage grave is the biggest in Scandinavia, andthe chamber is 16 x 2.5 metres, and the passage is about 11 metres long. One of the wall stones in the chamber is over 6 metres long.

This passage grave, together with Klövagårdens gånggrift, Logårds kulle and Haragårdens gånggrift is north of the road, while the farms is on the south. It has been accepted that this configuration has been the same since the stone age, which makes the road Sweden’s oldest that is still in use.

Info board on site in Swedish and English, antoher one at the parking spot in Swedish, and some English and German.

How to get there:
From the city of Falköping, take road 47 southeast for 4.3 kilometres, then turn left at the blue sign “Karleby”. Drive for 1.5 kilometres and there is a parking spot on your left.

This passage grave lies on a mound, which is about 23 x 22 metres and 2.7 metres high.
The chamber is a rectangle, 6 x 2.5 metres, and the passage is 7 metres long.
The grave was examined in 1872 by Montelius and Retxius and a arrowhead and scrapes of flintstone, amber pearls, fragments of pottery and the skeletons from about 80 people and bones from pig, cow, fox and marten.

this passage grave, together with Ragnvalds grav, Logårds kulle and Haragårdens gånggrift is north of the road, while the farms is on the south. It has been accepted that this configuration has been the sami since the stone age, which makes the road Sweden’s oldest that is still in use.

How to get there:
From the city of Falköping, take road 47 southeast for 4.3 kilometres, then turn left at the blue sign “Karleby”.
Drive for 1.5 kilometres and there is a parking spot on your left.
Walk westwards towards Ragnvalds Grav, then follow the track south in the field to the site.

The cairn at Lilla Lycke is probably from the bronze age, 3500-2500 years old. It is 25 metres in diameter and 2.8 metres high. Around the cairn lies stones that farmers has cleared from the fields, varying from 3 to 11 metres wide (widest on north). The size of the stones from the clearing is much more irregular, and generally smaller than the ones in the cairn.
On the east side there is a hole in the cairn, with sides of dry masonry.

The stone ring once consisted of 9 stones, but now only 6 remains.
This ring also has a low center stone. Was restored in 1936 by Mr Sahlström.

Info board on site in Swedish, English and German.

The cairn and the stone ring can be seen in GE.

How to get there:
1 kilometre south of Amundtorp, on the west side of the road.

The skibssaetning on Amundtorp grave field is 25 metres long and 9 metres wide, and consists of 24 stones, which gradually gets higher towards the ends. 22 stones were re-erected during a restoration in 1938.
On the WSW end of the ship there is a square, consisting of 12 standing stones, of which 5 was re-erected during the above mentioned restoration.the sides are 15 metres long.

ENE of the ship is a stone ring, 9 metres in diameter, and on the other side of the fence is another stone ring, 14 metres in diameter, in front of a barrow.

Note the hill behind the stone ship and the square, it’s straight and doesn’t look natural. It could be remains from the lime quarry nearby, but it looks like the ground where the stones are standing has been cut into the hill, leaving part of the hill behind.

South of the site there is also 2 hills, that looks like 2 barrows.

The stone square can be seen in GE.

How to get there:
On road 49 between Skara and Skövde, turn south in Varnhem towards
Broddetorp, and drive for 2.9 kilometres, then you’ll see the spot
to your left. Parking spot and info board in Swedish, English and German immediately beside the road. Park there and walk to the farm. Pass it and walk up the wooden stairs to the left behind the farm. After another 50 metres you are at the square of stones.

This cairn is one of the largest bronze age (1800 – 500BCE) monuments
in Västergötland. It has a low stone brim around the cairns edge. Large cairns of this type that have been investigated have often contained a cist built of stone slabs, for one burial. Bronze age cairns occur in the whole of Västergötland. Grave goods from the same period has been found in a number of rather large, low stone settings. Numerous loose finds also show that there have probably been many more graves, now destroyed.

Info sign on the site in Swedish and English.

A grave field with 2 standing stones is found 100 metres NNE of the cairn (you’ll see the stones if you are at Stora rör).

The cairn can be seen in GE.

How to get there:
At highway E20 at the city of Mariestad, turn southeastwards onto road 201. Turn right in the roundabout that you arrive to after 13.5 kilometres.
Drive 4 kilometres to Tidan town and look out for a blue sign “Horn 10” to the right. Turn and follow the road to the village of Horn (9.2 kilometres), then turn right at the blue sign “Tidavad 8”. After 2.2 kilometres you see the cairn on your right.

This is one of Sweden’s biggest ring-cairn. To me, it rather looks like a fort, but the Swedish heritage board classifies it as a ring-cairn, partly because it’s in a middle of a grave site, with another flat cairn and 2 stone rings immediately beside it, and 4 more stone rings in the forest. 200 metres north of the ring-cairn lies another cairn, which you will pass if you visit the site.

The ring-cairn is visible in GE, and the cairn and stone ring immediately north of it.

How to get there:
From highway E4, take the exit at Torsvik N (about 7 kilometres south of Jönköping) and drive westwards to the town Taberg.
In Taberg, turn left in the T-shaped roundabout, and drive for 4 kilometres, and turn left at the sign “Bratteborg”.
After 1.9 kilometres, turn left at the yellow sign “Röshult”, drive up to the farm, (where you see a blue sign “Gravfält 2” turn right and follow the gravel road until you see a a ‘No entry’ sign.
Turn right onto the small track road, after 100 metres you see the north cairn to your left, but continue another 150 metres for a parking spot. Walk south on the track road for 100 metres and the site is on your right.

See the field notes for the main site.
(Lundsbacke, category: round cairn)

Lundsbacke (grove hill) dates from 500BCE to 400CE and consists of about 200 round flat cairns, varying from 3 to 12 metres in diametre, most of the are overgrown, and 65 standing stones. Furthermore, in the area there is also a total of 290 metres of low stone walls, which is remains of walls that kept the iron age farmer’s cattle in place.
The grave field was restored 1928. Then 36 fallen stones were re-erected, and 2 graves were examined, where bronze pieces and a bone comb were found, dated to 1st century CE. Most of the re-erected stones were erected in the place where they were lying, but some of them were placed in the stone row on the hill.

How to get there:
From highway E4 between Jönköping and Stockholm,
take the exit in Mjölby onto road 32. Drive northwards for 7.8 kilometres until you reach aroundabout.
After the roundabout, continue north for 2.6 kilometres, then turn right. Drive on this road for 3.7 kilometres, then turn left at the blue sign “Lundsbacke Gravfält 1.0”. After about 800 metres you can park at the info sign, and walk a small pathe to the right towards the hill.

In the 1930’s the grave field south of Ströböhög was examined. The barrow is about 35 metres in diametre, and was originally higher.
Today the height is about 10 metres.

The scientist Rickard Dybeck acted together with an earlier owner of the Strö farm for saving the barrow from total obliteration, when there was a gravel mining pit on the barrow’s east and south side.

How to get there:
Drive on highway E18 to the city of Köping.
The site is immediately north of the crossing with road 250.

The site can be seen in GE

Info board on site in Swedish.

Kung Ranes hög (King Rane’s barrow)
On the cemetery of Flistad church lies Kung Ranes hög.
The barrow has a diametre of 25 metres, and i 5 metres high.
The top is flattened and has a diametre of about 5 metres.
No King Rane is known in the Swedish history,
but Rane is a noa word for the norse god Woden.

The barrow can be seen in GE

Info board on site in Swedish, English and German.

How to get there:
Follow the directions for Askeberga, but after the right-turn in the town Tidan, drive 1,8 kilometres instead of 350 metres, and turn right
at the white sign “Ranes hög 2”. Continue to Flistad village and
turn left at a second sign that says “Ranes hög”. Parking spot at the church.

Askeberga is the site of Sweden’s second largest skibssaetning, after Ales stenar in Skåne.
The 24 stones are between 1.5 and 3 metres high, the weight of the biggest one is estimated to weigh about 30 tonnes. The size of the ship is 55 x 18 metres, and the fore and aft stones are missing in this ship (like Nässja domarring), as opposed to most other skibssaetnings. This makes the shape of the stones look more like a longhouse, a common building during the iron age.

Info board on site in Swedish, English and German.

How to get there:
At highway E20 at the city of Mariestad, turn southeastwards onto road 201.
Turn right in the roundabout that you arrive to after 13.5 kilometres.
Drive 4 kilometres to Tidan town and look out for a right-pointing white sign “Skeppssättning”. turn right, and after 350 metres turn right again and after 1.2 kilometres the site and parking spot is to your right.

The site can be seen in GE

The site has been a gathering place since it was built in the younger iron age, in the south part of the ship there is a foundation for a flag pole, made 19 june 1942.

The ship is pointing in north-south direction, and is almost directly north of Ales stenar.

At Anundshög there are 5 skibssaetnings. No other site in Sweden has such a number of big skibssaetnings in a small area.
According to written sources, the stones were lying down in the 17th century. Probably the stones were understanded as pagan objects, and were destroyed when christianity grew.
The stones remained lying until 1932, when the restoration of 4 of the skibssaetnings began. The ground around the area were examined.
Close to the nearest stone to Anundshög some burned bones and a pottery shard was found, maybe a grave.
In the middle of the ships there is a round stone, perhaps symbolizing the mast of the ship.

The skibssaetning closest to Anundshög measures 53 metres lon and 16 wide. The other one is 51 metres long and 25 wide. The 3 smaller ones are 35, 28 and 23 metres long respectively. The fifth skibssaetning is still waiting to be restored.

Sorry for the pictures, some moron thought this was a good place to erect a stage… I’ll try to supply better pictures the next time i visit the area.

Info board on site in Swedish, English, German and French.

The big ship, made of 24 stones, whereof 10 is standing, is one of the largest in Sweden.
One peculiar thing with this skibsaetning is that the usually larger bow- and aft stones are missing, just like in the Askeberga skibssaetning. The size of the skibsaetning is 44 x 18 metres, the lying stones is 1.5-2.8 metres long, 1.1-2.4 metres wide and 0.6-1.6 metres thick. The standing stones are 1.5-2.4 metres high, 1.25-2.25 metres wide and
0.9-1.6 metres thick. The stones are connected by a wall, 2-3 metres wide and 0.1-0.2 metres high. The skibssaetning was examined in 1953.

The other 23 graves are round, flat barrows, except for one quadratic one, with standing stones in the corners.

The biggest one of the flat barrows has been reworked in later times, to be used as a fundament for a windmill.

GE has too bad resolution in the area

Info board on site in Swedish and English.

How to get there:
On Highway E4, about 58 kilometres north of Jönköping, take the exit to road 50 towards Motala and drive for 27.6 kilometres (take care – a lot of speed cameras on this road) then turn left and continue for 4.6 kilometres.

There is no parking directly at the site, so park at the church 200 metres south of the site.

Hill fort, placed on a steep moraine hill with double walls, both walls has several entrances, whereof the south one is probably the original one. The inner wall is about 150 metres long and 2-3 metres high. The width is about 10 metres. On the inside you can see traces of dry masonry on several places. The outer wall is about 250 metres long, 3 metres wide and 0.5 – 1.5 metres high.

The major part of the fort was built between 200 to 600CE

Info board on site in Swedish.

How to get there:
From highway E18, take the exit to road 53 about 12 kilometres west of Västerås. Drive 2,7 kilometres, then turn right onto road 558 towards Kolbäck and drive for 4.2 kilometres where there is a crossing.
Continue through the crossing, and after 150 metres there is a parking slot on your left, and the fort is on the hill to the left of the road.

This site comprises of almost 50 standing stones, some of which are positioned to form stone circles. There are 4 stone circles here, two of which are missing one stone each. This burial ground dates back to 400-1050CE

Info board on site in Swedish, English and German

The site can be seen in GE

How to get there:
From highway E20, take the exit to road 50 towards Askersund, after 2.6 kilometres turn left towards Hallsberg and drive through the town.
When you have exit Hallsberg, continue for about 1.5 kilometres, and you see the site to your right.

Look out for a yellow sign with crossed black lines that says “Water protection area” on the left side of the road. 10 metres after this sign there is a small parking spot on the left.

The Anundshög barrow is Sweden’s biggest, with a diametre of 64-68 metres and 9 metres high. It’s dated to younger iron age (500-900CE). In 1788 the barrow was digged by grave robbers. No info exists about if they found anything, and they never managed to dig down to the tomb.

The first arcaeological examination was made in 1998. Test drillings were made and shafts were dug in the barrow’s north and south part.

It was discovered that the barrow was placed on an older settlement. The bottom layer of the barrow consists of mud. On this layer the funeral pyre was set.

This has been covered with a cairn, 37 metres in diametre and 4.5 metres high. The cairn has then been covered by earth.

Info board on site in Swedish, English, German and French.

How to get there:
Driving westwards towards Västerås, take the second exit when you enter the city (the first exit leads to the airport) and drive northwards. Drive for 1.5 kilometres and turn right. The site is on the left side of the road after 2.5 kilometres.

Note: Look out for white signs with the text “Anundshög”, and they will guide you.

The hill fort Viksberget has not been dated, but dated hill forts in the area are mainly from 400-600CE. The size is about 75 x 50 metres, with a 150 metres long wall. In the south part steps has been built in later times. The round wall on the top, 6 metres in diameter is also built in later times.

It was useful once again in WW2, when the Swedish army built the terrace found about 30 metres east of the fort, with the size 8 x 7 metres, using it for looking for foreign aircrafts. This task was often executed by women, who was called ‘swifts’ (the bird)

Info board on site in Swedish and a little English.

How to get there:
The site is on the east side of the crossing between road 56 and road 214, about 19 kilometres north of Katrineholm. Drive 150 metres east on road 214, and you’ll find the site and a parking spot on your right.

Here on Boeryds gravfält (Grave field of Boeryd), you can find 2 tri-radial cairns, 4 standing stones and 17 stone circles. The tri-radial cairns is 13-20 metres long, and 0,4 high, with the ends pointing at E-SSW-NNW and NE-SSE-WNW. The stone rings are 4-10 metres in diametre, consisting of 5 to 9 stones each. The site was restored in the 1930’s.

Swedish national heritage board site code: Månsarp 25:1. Info board on site with Swedish, English and German. Some of the stone rings can be seen in GE (between the trees).

How to get there:
From highway E4, take the exit at Torsvik N (about 7 kilometres south of Jönköping) and drive westwards to the town Taberg.
In Taberg, turn right in the T-shaped roundabout, drive 300 metres and then turn left and go under the railroad bridge. After 3 kilometres on this road there is a sign “Boerydsgravfältet” pointing to the right, and a few metres into the forest there is a parking sign. Park there and the site is in front of you.

Kånna högar (Kånna barrows) is one of Småland’s biggest grave fields. There are almost 300 graves, 230 barrows erected around 500-1000CE. From the older part (500BCE-500CE) there are 2 stone ring , 30 standing stones, 2 treuddar (tri-radial cairns), 15 ring cairns and a dolmen. On the oldest part, from the bronze age (1800-500BCE) there is a cairn.

There is an info board on the site in Swedish, English and German.

The cemetery can clearly be seen in GE (or Google maps)

How to get there:
Drive towards the city Ljungby on highway E4, turn off at the south exit to Ljungby. Drive 700 metres towards Ljungby until the road curves to the left.
There you turn right, and drive for 1 kilmometre. You will see the site to your right, but continue for about 200 metres until you see a sight sign with the word ‘Gravfält’ pointing to the right. Turn right and drive for 250 metres where you will find a parking spot.

The chamber in this grave is built of 11 stones, and has 3 capstones. The passage consists of 6 stones on each side, and 3 capstones. The entrance width is 0.7 and height 0.6 metres. The length of the passage: 2.7, the chamber length 4.3 and width 2.1 metres.

The passage grave was examined 1843, 1907, 1951 and 1953. Amber pearls, arrow heads, axes, chisels, drills, knives and scraps of flintstone clay pots and the remains of at least 7 people has been found.

About 2 metres east of the passage grave are the remains of a cist, consisting of 4 stones.

The mound can be seen in GE and the passage entrance can just be seen on the ESE edge.

How to get there:
After you have visited the site Glumslövs backar, continue northwards on highway E6 and turn off at the next exit (after 3 kilometres). Turn westwards and turn left in the roundabout after 600 metres. Turn right just when you leave the town Glumslöv (after 3,6 kilometres), and after 3,1 kilometres you will find a parking spot to the right. Park there and the site is in the field northwest of the parking spot.

Note: The site is in the middle of a farmer’s field, on GE you can see a track through the field pointing northwest. When I visited the site, this track didn’t exist, I found one southwest of the site instead, so when you visit the spot, please look carefully around the field and try to find an existing track, to avoid destroying crops.

Complex site consisting of 2 damaged passage graves and 20 barrows. 8 of the barrows are well preserved and can be seen in GE. The barrows are from the early bronze age (2000-2800BCE) One of the biggest barrow is called ‘Viktors hög’ (Viktor’s barrow) and some of the others is called ‘Björne högar’, but none of these names are known to historians, so the barrows are probably named by later inhabitants of the close-by villages. One of the barrows, which in later times were used as an execution place, are called ‘Galgbacken’ (Gallows hill).

Also the passage graves can be seen (the 2 small barrows closest to the highway). Several stones has been blasted away, and the capstones are gone. They have been examined 1842 by professor Sven Nilsson, 1921 by O frödin and crown prince Gustav Adolf. The findings were crashed pottery, miscellaneous flint stone items, stone axes and amber pearls.

They were built around 3600-3200BCE, by the funnel-beaker culture, who was Sweden’s and Denmark’s first farmers.

Sorry for the bad pictures, I (or you?) will try to take some more pictures in the winter, when the grass is down, and the stones more visible.

Info board on site in Swedish, English and German.

How to get there:
The site lies between the cities Landskrona and Helsingborg. It’s easiest if you arrive from the south (suggestion: Visit the site Gillhög first). Drive on the highway E6. When you have travelled 8 kilometres from Landskrona, you will drive up on to a big hill. On the top of the hill, there is a gas station and Burger King, turn at this exit and park the car. The site is immediately south of the gas station.

Gillhög is one of Skåne’s best preserved passage grave. The barrow is about 25 metres in diametre and 2.5 metres high. The passage is 5,5 metres long and 0.5 -1.2 wide. It was examined in 1932 under supervision of Mr. O Rydbäck. They found some skeletons, 1 knife made of flintstone, pearls made of amber, some crashed pottery and miscellaneous tools made of flintstone.

Due to risk of collapsing, Gillhög was restored during 1986 by a team of Danish archaeologists.

This site can also be found in Julian Cope’s book ‘The Megalithic European’ under the name Hofterup, but he also mentions Gillhög in the text.

The compass-reading of the passage is about 121 degrees.

There is an information board on the site with Swedish, English and German info.

How to get there:
The site is situated between the cities Malmö and Landskrona.
Take the highway E6 and turn of the road at the north exit to the town of Löddeköpinge (if you arrive from Landskrona, you will see the shopping centre ‘Center syd’ on the east side of the road immediately before the exit.
Turn westwards toward Barsebäck, drive about 2.4 kilometres. When you are driving upwards a hill, look for a attraction sight sign that points to the left.
Turn left onto the gravel road and drive about 200 metres. turn right and you are at the spot.

This burial field was restored in the 1940s. There are 60 graves, of which 38 are stone circles of varying size (the 2 biggest in the pictures). The trident is unusually large, and is probably a cenotaph, a symbolic grave. The site is from early iron age, 500BCE to 500CE.

How to get there
Take the south road (road 132) to Aneby from road 32. When you reach Aneby, turn right, and immediately left, so you drive on a bridge over road 132.

After 7 kilometres, turn left towards Flisby. The site is on the right side after 1 kilometre.

The trident can be seen in GE (or Google maps).

According to an info sign at the place, the five stone circles were built in the later iron age (0-500CE).

The name of the site, ‘Smålands stenar’ (the stones of Småland) which by the way has given the nearby town it’s name (Smålandsstenar), was invented by the megalith-interested priest Daniel Nordin in the early 19th century. Before that, the name of the site was ‘Skäppekullen‘

How to get there
The town Smålandsstenar is about 72 kms along road 26 from Halmstad.

Driving northwards, almost when you have exited the town, there is a white sign with black letters ‘Gravfält’ pointing to the right. Turn right and drive about 500 metres, then turn right and drive 250 metres.

The circles can be seen in GE (or google maps).

The fort lies on the edge of a mountain at the border between the forest and the open plain. Close by, runs the river Järleån, which was an important means of travel.

The fort had natural protection on three sides, with steep, 20 metre deep slopes, and the fourth side was protected by a stone wall. The wall has fallen apart, and looks now more like a bank, but close to the entrance, the wall is better preserved.

Info board on site in Swedish, English and German.

How to get there:
Drive 20 kilometres northward on road 50 from the crossing of highway E20 and road 50.

On the right side you will find a truck parking spot. Park the car there, and immediately north of the parking spot there is a small gravel road to the right. Walk 200 metres and then turn right onto a small track. After about 200 metres you are at the spot.

On and at the foot of this marked ridge lies the Iron age (500BCE – 1050CE) burial ground of Grepstad village.

The about 70 graves comprise mainly round and rather flat barrows. Along the barrows, standing stones, and at times stone rings can be found.

On the other side of the present road there is a holy well, called Midsommarkällan (the well of midsummer). The well and the burial ground are both mentioned in local ghost stories.

Remains of old roads can also be seen here. Hundreds of years of tramping feet and hooves have worn shallow trenches in the ground

One of the stone rings can be seen in Google Earth (GE).

Info board on site in Swedish and English.

How to get there
From highway E4, turn to road 50 in Mjölby towards Motala. Drive about 19 kilometres and you will find a parking spot at the site on the right side of the road.