Ajvide Settlement

The Ajvide Settlement (Swedish: Ajvideboplatsen) is located in Ajvide, Eksta, on the western coast of Gotland, Sweden [1]. It covers an area of 200,000 m2 and was occupied from the Late Mesolithic through to the mid Bronze Age [1]. The majority of the activity on the site took place during the Middle Neolithic period (3100 – 2700 BC) [1]. This phase of activity belongs to the Pitted Ware culture [1]. Around 2900 BC, the site suffered from a marine transgression [1]. The principal feature of the site is a burial ground containing some 80 graves [1]. Most of these graves date to later than the main phase of Pitted Ware activity [1]. Adjacent to the cemetery, to the east, is an area of very dark soil that contains a mixture of artifacts, pottery and bone fragments [1].