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<< Text Pages >> SÃ¥nga 70:1 - Cairn in Sweden in Uppland

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: SÃ¥nga 70:1 Alternative Name: Alby
Country: Sweden
NOTE: This site is 3.556 km away from the location you searched for.

Landskap: Uppland Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Stenhamra
Latitude: 59.358697N  Longitude: 17.650975E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Cairn in Uppland

The cairn is the centerpiece of an iron age graveyard, early to preViking to end of Viking era (no sign of Christian trappings). Given the proximity to Lake Mälaren, it would have been an emerged island or peninsula when first used, as the land continued its geostatic rebound since glaciation. There are dozens of graves at this site on the Island of Färingsö, and the graveyard is quite close to the main Viking city of Björkö, as the crow flies. Today, the island of Munsö has emerged to block passage. There are two score reasonably large graveyards from this era on Färingsö, but this one seems to been devoted to a wealthy farm/community. Elsewhere, typically, grave mounds are smaller and the stone-covered flatter graves are circular, 3 to 5 m. Here there are many of the rarer square or rectangular plots, with large stone edges and a thicker bed. Here, the flat graves are large (7-10 m) and in orderly rows. There are also some tight up against the cairn.

As cairns here on the island were more common in the bronze age but on hilltops, this cairn had old lichen growth indicating age, but it is down by the old lake shore, raising questions of whether it long preceded the other graves, or is a rare iron age example. There are also a few larger than normal mounds.

What makes the site impressive is not any one grave, but the number of unusual, large and well-ordered graves.

Near this graveyard is good lakebed soil, and the gentle slope uphill leads to a low hilltop, where now sits a manor house and outbuildings.

The graveyard is in a glade that has cattle grazing it, which keeps it open, compared to the thick tangle of woods just adjacent to it.
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