Furby

Furby
Алексей Курипко · CC BY-SA 3.0

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 AD. The Badelunda area was a major Iron Age power center with around 500 visible graves along the ridge, including 12 burial mounds, 5 ship settings, 14 standing stones, and a rune stone. The area served as a gathering place for legal assemblies (Things) and lay at the crossroads of major trade routes linking Lake Malar communities with northern regions.

TypeMound/tumulus
Period500 - 1000 AD
CountrySweden
Coordinates59.6335° N, 16.6833° E

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