Bronze age foot carvings and burial mound

I had been looking for this place for quite a while as I’ve read about the carvings in a book from the early 20th century.
This is a bronze age burial mound , on top of it is a rock with feet carvings.

The symbol of the foot is often found in connection with a female figure – suggesting a connection. Some scholars have even proposed that the foot is a symbol of the ancient goddess Nerthus (mentioned by the Roman historian Tacitus in the first century AD in his famous work “Germania” where he met with the remote Suebi tribes.

Bronze Age burial mound, Trelleborg, Sweden

Bronze age foot petroglyph (rock carving)

Megalith – The king’s dolmen

Back to Scandinavia, this is the 4500 year old King’s Dolmen, in Västra Torp, Skåne, Sweden.
February will be the month of my self-imposed computer embargo, so I have but on more day to post.

King’s Dolmen Megalith, Västra Torp, Sweden

Megalith; Erkes dös

Erkedösen also known as Erkes Dös, or Erkes Dolmen is a passage grave dating from the Middle Neolithic era. It is set on a mound 1.5 meters high and 17 meters wide.

Megalith – Erkes dös. Neolithic passage grave.

Disas ting

Disas ting, Svarte, Skåne

 

Disas ting, Svarte, Skåne

Ancestral

Ancestral

Lilla Kungsdösen Megalithic Tomb

Lilla Kungsdösen (lit. Lesser  or Smaller King’s Dolmen) is situated in Östra Torp, not far from Trelleborg in Skåne.  I failed to notice that my camera was set to ISO 2500 when I took this photo…

Skegrie megalithic monument

This approx. 5000 year old megalithic structure is located just outside Trelleborg in the village of Skegrie

Megalithic monument, Skegrie (Trelleborg), Sweden

Ale Stones.

Ale’s Stones (Ales stenar in Swedish) is a megalithic monument in Scania in southern Sweden , probably from circa 600 CE, that is, the end of the Nordic Iron Age . Scanian folklore ascribes the stones to King Ales’s grave. This site is significant for Scandinavian heritage studies.

Ale’s Stones consist of a 67 metre long stone ship formed by 59 large boulders of sandstone, weighing up to 1.8 tonnes each. (from Wikipedia).

I took these two photos a couple of years ago:

Ale Stones, Kåseberga, Skåne, Sweden

Ale Stones, Kåseberga, Skåne, Sweden