Skegriedösen (Skegrie Dolmen) – 5,000-Year-Old Stone Chamber Tomb In Southern Sweden

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – Megalithic graves appeared more or less simultaneously in southern Sweden and were first used around 3500–3300 cal BC.

Skegriedösen (Skegrie Dolmen) – 5,000-Year-Old Stone Chamber Tomb In Southern Sweden
Skegrie megalith grave in Skåne, Sweden. Image credit: Jorchr – CC BY-SA 3.0

In comparison with other countries, Sweden has only about a hundred dolmens, mainly in Skåne, Halland, and Bohuslän. From the beginning, Sweden certainly possessed many more of them. Today, the existing number of these structures constitutes only a tiny part of what once existed.

No one knows precisely how these massive stones were moved and laid in their place.

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