Ales Stenar

Ale's Stones (Swedish: Ales stenar or Ale stenar) is a megalithic monument in Scania in southern Sweden [1]. It is a stone ship, oval in outline, with the stones at each end markedly larger than the rest [1]. It is 67 m long formed by 59 large boulders, weighing up to 5 tonnes each [1]. The carbon-14 dating system for organic remains has provided seven results at the site [1]. One indicates that the material is around 5,500 years old, whereas the remaining six indicate a date about 1,400 years ago [1]. The latter is considered to be the most likely time for Ales Stenar to have been created [1]. That would place its creation towards the end of the Nordic Iron Age [1]. In 1989, during the first archaeological excavations performed in order to scientifically investigate and date the monument, archaeologists found a decorated clay pot with burned human bones inside the ship setting [1].