Ales Stones (or Ales stenar in Swedish) - Some 90 KM south east to - TopicsExpress



          

Ales Stones (or Ales stenar in Swedish) - Some 90 KM south east to Malmo - is a megalithic monument in Skåne in southern Sweden. It is a stone ship, oval in outline, with the stones at each end markedly larger than the rest. It is 67-meters long formed by 59 large boulders, weighing up to 1.8 tonnes each. We have been there today and it was raining - literally - cats and dogs. The carbon-14 dating system for organic remains, has provided seven results at the site. One indicates that the stones are around 5,500 years old, whereas the remaining six indicate a date about 1,400 years ago. The latter is considered to be the most likely time for Ales Stenar to have been created. That would place its creation towards the end of the Nordic Iron Age.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 21:55:39 +0000

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