Uppkåra burial ground

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Uppkåra burial ground

The Uppkåra Cemetery (Swedish: Uppkåra gravfalt ) is a prehistoric burial site at Uppkåra, northeast of Sävsjö in the Swedish municipality of Sävsjö in the historic province of Småland .

In the cemetery there are 85 burial mounds. It is assumed that they originated in the later Iron Age , between 500 and 1050 after the beginning of our era. In the wider area there are similar barrow fields that were originally assigned to specific farms.

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Coordinates: 57 ° 24 ′ 32.8 "  N , 14 ° 41 ′ 48.1"  E