Location
State: Sweden
Region: Gavle
County: Gävleborg
Parish: Valbo
Other references to the location
In Åby in Valbo
Coordinates
lat=60.645185167168, lon=17.040778896074
60° 38′ 42″ N, 17° 2′ 26″ E
Description
Gravefield with ten mounds and five stone settings
Narrative
A holy burial ground for the Iron Age inhabitants. The mounds are sometimes suggested to represent a farming group of inhabitants. The stone settings are assumed to represent people that mainly occupied themselves with fishing and hunting. The iron cult has left traces all over the site in form of iron slag.
Attraction
Ancient remains in an old rural landscape with roots in the Stone Age
Availability
Small road all the way to the gravefield
Infrastructure, management, facilities
No infrastructure on the site
Local info
County museum sign
Capacity
10 – 40
Publicity
Known
Legal Status
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