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MuseumsSite Name: Vendeltidsmuseet Alternative Name: Vendel visitor centreCountry: Sweden
NOTE: This site is 78.061 km away from the location you searched for.
Landskap: Uppland Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Uppsala Nearest Village: Vendel
Latitude: 60.164200N Longitude: 17.600790E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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This small museum and information center was set up for visitors to the village and its archaeological past.
Fifteen boat graves, created between 550 and 800, were discovered near the church of Vendel. Therefore, the Vendel site is an eponymous site for the period known in Swedish archaeology as the Vendel Period. This period corresponds to the Early Middle Ages in Central Europe, but since Scandinavia was not yet Christianized at that time, it is also considered part of the Iron Age.
The first boat grave at Vendel was discovered in 1881 and, after the Ultuna find (shortly after 1850), was the second boat grave from the Vendel Period ever discovered. Most of the graves were presumably plundered during the construction of the church around 1300. A total of 12 boat graves and two wooden cist graves are known to date, apparently chronologically consecutive and covering a period from 600 to 1000 AD. The wooden crate graves and six of the boat graves date from the Viking Age, while the remaining boat graves are Vendel period. The richest graves date from the Vendel period.
Hardly any traces of the boat graves remain that are visible to the naked eye. Information panels on the site and a large statue point to these significant finds.
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