Stone Ship - Prominent Stone Ships

Prominent Stone Ships

• Ale's Stones is a stone ship in southernmost Sweden. It is 67 metres long and 19 metres wide.
• Stones of Askeberga Image and more images is Sweden's second largest stone ship, measuring 55 metres in length. It is, however, the most remarkable one as it is made of 24 enormous boulders, weighing about 25 tonnes each.
• Anundshög (Image): double stone ship at Anundshög (from the Old Norse haugr, mound) has a total length of 100 metres and one of the ships is 25 metres wide. In the same area there are several smaller stone ships.
• Bække, Denmark. 800 m north of Bække there is a 45-metre ship which dates to the Viking Age.
• Gettlinge grave field, Öland, Sweden.
• Hulterstad grave field, Öland, Sweden includes a total of 170 burial locations.
• Kerteminde fjord, Denmark, a 20-metre ship which dates to the Viking Age.
• Lejre, Denmark. An approximately 80-metre ship of 28 stones. The ship was cleared in 1921 by a landowner, but some local people interested in history succeeded in saving the stones. Viking Age.
• Lindholm Høje near Aalborg, Denmark. The heaviest concentration of well preserved stone ships.
• Stones of Blomsholm. The stone ship at Blomsholm near Strömstad in Bohuslän measures more than 40 metres in length and consists of 49 large menhirs. The bow and stern are about 4 metres high. There are several other large megaliths in the area.
• Jelling stone ship. Under the southern mound in Jelling, Denmark, which is associated with Queen Thyra, remains of a giant Viking Age stone ship have been found, by far the largest known: either 170 metres or 354 metres.
• Tjelvar's Grave (Image) is according to legend the grave of Gotland's mythical discoverer Thjelvar, and is dated to c. 750 BC.
• Altes Lager Menzlin near Anklam, Western Pomerania, Germany. The stone ships date back to the 9th century.