Stockaryd burial ground

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Stockaryd burial ground

The Stockaryd Burial Ground (Swedish: Stockaryds Gravfalt ) is a prehistoric burial ground in Stockaryd in the Swedish municipality of Sävsjö in the historic province of Småland .

The burial ground was created in the Iron Age and includes 90 graves. The graves are mostly designed as flat stone settings . Five graves are three-pointed stone settings. The buried deceased were cremated. Burials took place between 500 and 1050 after the beginning of our era.

Because of the overgrown vegetation, the grave sites are difficult to see.

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Coordinates: 57 ° 19 '12.7 "  N , 14 ° 35' 4.7"  E