Archaeological Sites in Sweden
City/town/settlement in Sweden (10)
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…
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…
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…
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. The hot mineral springs, reaching 47°C (117°F)…
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. The finds,…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Cemetery in Sweden (6)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
Mound/tumulus in Sweden (6)
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. Radiocarbon dating of a…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Necropolis/tombs complex in Sweden (5)
Gantoftadösen
Gantoftadösen ("Giant's home") is a partially destroyed dolmen necropolis in the Helsingborg area of Scania, Sweden, registered as RAÄ Kvistofta 14:1. Erected between 3500 and…
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. The site sits on a low-lying ridge along…
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…
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…
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 --…
Fortress/citadel in Sweden (4)
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…
Gåseborg
Gåseborg is an Iron Age hillfort in Järfälla municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden, situated along the historic waterway between Lake Mälaren and Jakobsberg. Constructed during…
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…
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. The fort covers…
Rock relief/carving in Sweden (3)
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. The sites include Boglösa…
Runestones of Sweden
(4th - 12th c.) Runestones are raised stones, boulders, or bedrock carvings featuring runic inscriptions, primarily erected as memorials to deceased men. The tradition began in…
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.…
Petroglyphs in Sweden (2)
Gärde
Gärde is a prehistoric archaeological site in Jämtland, Sweden, featuring rock carvings (petroglyphs) created approximately 7,000 years ago during the Mesolithic period. The…
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…
Rock art in Sweden (2)
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…
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…
Castle/palace in Sweden (1)
Megalithic stones in Sweden (1)
Museum in Sweden (1)
Temple complex in Sweden (1)
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