a great cairn, gotland.

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

a coastal gravefield during winter.

on a latitude with long winters and short (though lovely) summers, this is what gravefields look like most of the year. their visual place in the landscape during winter is a little difficult to see if the graves are small in size. the snow was far above my knees. i think this stone ship is rockin' it though. it is very pretty. this particular stone ship is sweden's most northern. the final frontier! in the south of scandinavia the stone ships are a lot bigger.

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.

obbola, part 1. crispy sunny sunday, perfect for a small field trip.

It should have been winter for a month now. But there is still autumn in this country, so, the archaeologist's in us saw a great opportunity to use this day for something really good. Sofi and I packed hot cocoa and went 10 km south of Umeå, out to the town of obbola by the coast to see the grave cairns that are there, which we haven't been to before. We started early in the day, when the sun was the brightest. it was lovely.

three iron age grave cairns.

While we were walking around in the forest, we saw some other ancient monuments. We spent 3 hours out there, mostly wandering around following some random trail, because at first we couldn't find the exact location of the grave field. ie. there was no good road signs for it. we kind of knew where it would be, but not how to get there, so we walked a little bit far too south of it. luckily the forest there at obbola has water on both sides, so there was no chance for us getting completely lost. we were actually really close to the site before we finally found it!

medieval seal hunter's house foundations. swe: tomtning


part 2 and 3 below

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.

two long cairns in åheden, part 2

first, 15 meters long.

en myr emellan

second, 24 meters long!

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..

fisksjöhällorna, 2 stensättningar..

oval i formen

den mindre av de två, fotad från olika vinklar, faktiskt den minsta stensättningen jag nånsin sett:

min mamma är 163 cm lång...

fin rund kantkedja hade den.

ett hål i hällen, nån meter från mindre stensättningen.