Archaeological Sites in Sweden
Ajvide Settlement
A large Pitted Ware culture settlement and cemetery covering 200,000 square metres on the west coast of Gotland, Sweden. Occupied from the Late Mesolithic through the mid-Bronze Age, peak activity…
Alby, Öland
Alby is a village on the island of Oland, Sweden, with one of the oldest settlements on the island, dating to the Mesolithic era around 7000-6000 BC. The earliest settlers, known archaeologically as…
Ales Stenar
Ales Stenar (Ale's Stones) is the largest preserved stone ship in Sweden, located atop a coastal bluff in Kaseberga, Skane. The oval formation is 67 meters long and 19 meters wide, composed of 59…
Alvastra Pile-Dwelling
The Alvastra Pile-Dwelling is a prehistoric pile dwelling from ca. 3000 BC located in Alvastra, Ödeshög Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden. Unique in Northern Europe, it is the only known…
Anundshög
Anundshög is a tumulus near Västerås in Västmanland, Sweden, and the largest in the country, measuring 60 metres in diameter and about 9 metres in height [1]. Radiocarbon dating of a fireplace…
Aquae Helveticae
Aquae Helveticae was a Roman vicus and mineral spa established in the 1st century AD near the legion camp of Vindonissa at Windisch [1]. The hot mineral springs, reaching 47°C (117°F) and rich in…
Björkö, Ekerö
An island in Lake Malaren, 30 km west of Stockholm, renowned as the site of Birka, one of the most important Viking Age trading centers in Northern Europe. Founded around AD 750, Birka flourished for…
Eketorp
Eketorp is an Iron Age fort on southeastern Öland, Sweden, rebuilt and enlarged during the Medieval period. Throughout history it functioned as a defensive ringfort, a medieval safe haven, and later…
Ekornavallen
Ekornavallen is an ancient burial ground in Falkoping Municipality, Sweden, used continuously for over 4,000 years from the Stone Age (c. 3300 BC) through the Viking era (c. 1000 AD). The site…
Finnestorp
Finnestorp is a Migration Period cult site in Västergötland, Sweden, where more than 700 artifacts were sacrificed and deposited in a lake between 350–550 AD[1][2]. The finds, discovered in 1902 and…
Furby
Furby is a locality in Badelunda parish, Vasteraas Municipality, Sweden, situated near Anundshog -- Sweden's largest burial mound (9 m high, 64 m diameter), built between the 5th and 11th centuries…
Gamla Uppsala
One of Sweden's most significant archaeological sites, located 5 km north of modern Uppsala, serving as a major religious, economic, and political centre from the 3rd century AD onward. The site is…
Gantoftadösen
Gantoftadösen ("Giant's home") is a partially destroyed dolmen necropolis in the Helsingborg area of Scania, Sweden, registered as RAÄ Kvistofta 14:1 [1]. Erected between 3500 and 2800 BC by the…
Gärde
Gärde is a prehistoric archaeological site in Jämtland, Sweden, featuring rock carvings (petroglyphs) created approximately 7,000 years ago during the Mesolithic period [1]. The carvings are located…
Gårdlösa
Iron Age settlement site in Smedstorp parish, Skane, Sweden, inhabited briefly during the late Nordic Bronze Age and continuously from the 1st century BC to the 11th century AD. In 1949 a woman's…
Gårdstånga
Ancient community in Eslov Municipality, Skane County, Sweden, situated at a bridge over the River Kavlingeaan along the Malmo-Kristianstad highway. The site features a Bronze Age burial mound…
Gåseborg
Gåseborg is an Iron Age hillfort in Järfälla municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, situated along the historic waterway between Lake Mälaren and Jakobsberg [1]. Constructed during the younger Iron…
Gene fornby
Gene Fornby is a reconstructed Iron Age settlement located just outside Örnsköldsvik in Västernorrland County, Sweden [1]. The settlement dates to the Roman Iron Age, approximately 400-600 AD [1].…
Gettlinge Grave Field
Gettlinge is a village in the southwest portion of the island of Oland, Sweden, known for its impressive Viking stone ship burial ground [1]. The site sits on a low-lying ridge along the western…
Glösa
Glösa, located in Jämtland province in central Sweden, preserves approximately 60 petroglyphs carved 3,000-5,000 years ago by Stone Age hunters. The carvings predominantly depict elk and moose, with…
Greby Grave Field
An Iron Age grave field north of Grebbestad in Tanum Municipality, western Sweden, containing over 200 graves making it the largest in Bohuslan. Around 40 graves are marked with standing stones up to…
Haga Dolmen
Neolithic megalithic burial chamber on the island of Orust in Bohuslan, Sweden, possibly up to 5,000 years old. The dolmen consists of four vertical stone slabs supporting a capstone roof, with the…
Håga Mound
The Håga Mound (Hågahögen), also known as King Björn's Mound, is a large Nordic Bronze Age tumulus in Uppsala, Sweden. Standing approximately 7 metres high and measuring 45 metres in diameter, it is…
Hassle
Hassle is a Bronze Age site in Orebro County, Sweden, where the renowned Hassle treasure was discovered in 1936 in the parish of Glanshammar. The hoard consists of a large bronze cultic cauldron of a…
Helgö
Helgo is an island in Lake Malaren, Sweden, home to a major trading settlement that emerged around 200 AD -- five centuries before the famous Viking centre at Birka. Discovered in 1954, excavations…
Ismantorp Fortress
Ismantorp Fortress is the largest and probably oldest of approximately 20 ringforts on the island of Oland, Sweden, constructed between 200-500 AD during the Migration Period. The limestone ringwall…
Jordbro Grave Field
Jordbro Grave Field is a large Iron Age cemetery in Haninge kommun, southern Stockholm County, Sweden. Located south of Jordbro town, roughly 1 km from Jordbro train station and 1.5 km north of…
Massleberg 1 Rock Art
The Massleberg 1 rock carvings (RAA Skee 614:1) are located near Stromstad in Bohuslan, southwestern Sweden, about 80 metres from the Massleberg grave field. Dating to the Nordic Bronze Age (c.…
Olsborg Castle
Olsborg Castle was a fortified castle in Tanum Municipality, Bohuslan, Sweden, constructed in 1502-1504 by squire Nils Ravaldsson on a steep cliff that may have previously served as an early hill…
Rock Carvings of Boglösa
The Rock Carvings of Boglösa are three Bronze Age and Iron Age petroglyphs located in the province of Uppland, central Sweden, southeast of Enköping[1]. The sites include Boglösa Kyrka near the…
Runestones of Sweden
(4th - 12th c.) Runestones are raised stones, boulders, or bedrock carvings featuring runic inscriptions, primarily erected as memorials to deceased men. [1] The tradition began in the 4th century…
Sagaholm
A Bronze Age burial site in Ljungarums parish south of Jonkoping, Smaland, Sweden, dating to approximately 1700-500 BC. The site features the largest group of rock engravings discovered in a burial…
Sliprännor i Gantofta
Sliprannor i Gantofta is a sandstone outcrop near Helsingborg in Scania, Sweden, covered with hundreds of mysterious prehistoric grooves along the Raa river valley escarpment. Once thought to be…
Sollentuna Socken
Sollentuna socken is a former parish of Sollentuna Hundred in Uppland, Sweden, largely corresponding to modern Sollentuna Municipality. The area contains numerous Bronze Age gravroesen (chambered…
Stenehed
Stenehed is an Iron Age grave field dating to 600-400 BC, located southwest of Hallevadsholm in Munkedal Municipality, Sweden. The site contains approximately 45 graves, a stone circle, a stone ship,…
Stenungsund
Archaeological excavations at Stenungsund, approximately 30 miles north of Gothenburg in western Sweden, uncovered Iron Age burials dating to 1-300 AD containing an unusual find: shards of Roman…
The King's Grave
A monumental Nordic Bronze Age burial site near Kivik in southeastern Scania, Sweden, dating to approximately 1500 BC. With a diameter of 75 metres, it is the largest known burial mound in Sweden.…
Torsburgen
Torsburgen is an ancient hillfort in Kräklingbo on Gotland island in the Baltic Sea. Constructed in the 1st-4th century, it remained in use until the 12th century. [1] The fort covers approximately…
Tumlehed Rock Painting
The Tumlehed Rock Painting is a prehistoric pictograph site on Hisingen island, Gothenburg, Sweden, created between 4200-2500 BC by mobile hunters who traveled by boat to the west coast. It is the…
Uppåkra
Uppåkra is an Iron Age settlement in southern Sweden, located 5 km south of Lund in modern Scania. Archaeological excavations since 1996 have revealed a significant regional center [1]. The site…
Uppåkra Temple
Remains of an Iron Age ritual building excavated 2000-2004 at Uppakra, south of Lund in Scania, Sweden -- the largest Iron Age settlement in the Nordic countries, active from 100 BC to the 10th…
Vätteryd Grave Field
Vatteryd is an Iron Age cremation burial ground in Hassleholm Municipality, Scania, Sweden, established between 400 and 900 AD. The site contains 183 menhirs, 15 stone ships -- the largest measuring…