{"id":1358,"date":"2017-10-30T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2017-10-31T22:07:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:07:55","slug":"ancient-monuments-on-lidingo-1-stockby-grave-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiowood.com\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Monuments on Liding\u00f6 2: Stockby Grave Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just a couple of hundred meters from the Stockby burial mound is an unexcavated gravefield with five stone-setting mounds. The graves are believed to date from the Viking Age (the Late Iron Age ca 800-1050 AD). According to the sign, it served as the cemetary for the nearby Stockby farmstead.<\/p>\n

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I have to say, my untrained eye could barely discern anything in the area.<\/p>\n

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Map of the grave field<\/p><\/div>\n

According to the National Heritage Board Fmis database<\/a> the site measures 40 x 20 meters. At least one of the five stone-setting mounds is 6 meters in diameter and 0.4-0.5 meters in diameter, while there are \u201duncertain\u201d mounds 5 meters in diameter and around 0.2 meters high. The site is covered with oak, birch and maple trees.<\/p>\n

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In between the grave field and the nearby burial mound is a large modern store selling builders\u2019 supplies. One wonders if other finds might have been located underneath the store location?<\/p>\n

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Just a couple of hundred meters from the Stockby burial mound is an unexcavated gravefield with five stone-setting mounds. The graves are believed to date from the Viking Age (the Late Iron Age ca 800-1050 AD). According to the sign,…<\/p>\n

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