a great cairn, gotland.

sofi took a photo of me talking. we all had a site to present and this was mine! yay!

another weekend field trip! part 1, grave field

the weather was in our favor, this weekend as well. We went out before lunch, Sofi and i, to the grave field of our dreams. The sun tried its hardest to shine on us. Sofi is in the pictures. the grave field is from 1500-500 B.C, which is bronze age. This field trip lasted 3 hours as well, just as last saturday's. We loved everything.

go big or go home, they seemed to say.

opened and plundered grave cairn with a stone cist in the center.

from prehistory with love.

field trip to grave field in åheden, part 1

shingle beach

mycket pors växte omkring.

rösegravfältet med 9 rösen i åheden ligger väl några kilometer, fågelvägen, från gravfältet på rösberget, fisksjöhällorna. så de ligger mitt emot varandra kan man säga. jag antar att man kunde se dem under deras tidsperiod. detta gravfält är daterat till äldre bronsålder (omkring 1500 f kr). långrösena hade synliga kistor, och rösena mittgropar. två av rösena hade också stenkistor.

fisksjöhällorna, long cairn.

long cairn with a smaller cairn to the right "built into".

a view of the water that used to run down there.

plundered and open stone cist. this is so terrible it hurts to show it.
completely exposed to weather and world.
imagine how sad the people who built this would feel if they knew.
no respect for the dead or the living.

fisksjöhällorna, 2 rösen..

detour.

last month I took Hazel out to here and here to show her what Umeå looked like during the Bronze Age. I wanted her to know something about Umeå before she went back to England! these grave mounds are located where the bronze age sea level was, which was higher than it is today. that wide river is today smaller, almost tiny and still runs through Umeå, coming from the sea going all the way up to the mountains near norway, because of this the grave mounds are found further inland today on both sides of the river. there is also a group of mounds behind the university.

There isn't a whole lot to actually SEE here in Umeå, so these mounds are great cuz you get a picture of how the landscape looked back then. they are also located on small hills, now uplifted in the landscape naturally. very pretty and protected! i like that they still have their place in the world this way and that you can still sense the ideas of the people who built them, (instead of being in the deep forest where no one will ever see them) it is really cool. time just stands still at these places! it's awesome. the settlements of the mound builders are not found yet (further inland it is the opposite, settlements but no graves. hm hm hm?).

i wrote all of this only in english, don't have time to write it twice in two languages today! if you can read swedish you can read english ;)

i didnt take any photos on this day, but there are plenty in the links above.

i 2010.

sveriges nordligaste skeppssättning.

nu så här på vårkanten innan grönskan kommer, så ska jag bege mig iväg ut och titta på fornlämningsplatser runt om umeå som jag inte sett ännu. tex hällristningar från bronsåldern i laxforsen vid öre älv, samt hällristningarna i stornorrforsen. idag åkte jag ill närmsta granne vad gäller fornlämmning, bronsåldersrösena och skeppssättningen vid mjösjön mellan umeå och holmsund. men det var betydligt mycke mer snö än vad jag trodde det skulle vara. får återkomma senare. jag har varit där ett antal gånger, det är en fin och tyst plats, även om bilarna från holmsundsvägen ständigt hörs. jag åker förbi den här platsen när jag ska hämta hö till min häst.

exkursion on the island holmön outside Umeå

shingle beach.

here's my boat parking spot.

shingle beach.

human made pit in the shingle beach.

tomtning.

labyrint.

grave cairn

grave cairn

tomtning.

excursion around the city of sundsvall, part 2

Högom:

norrlands largest grave field at Högom, Sundsvall.

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Tuna had lots of different sites:

us, as postholes. foto: sofi.

house?

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hill fort:

me, linnéa and elisabet.

view from the  hill fort

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Gene, iron age settlement:

the older and younger long houses at gene.

cooking pit, gene

gravemound, gene

a house over a house, gene

the big house of iron working at the settlement, gene

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bronze age cairns :
(there was also a stone ship at this site)