Stiby Sissa

The building stone Stiby Sissa is an approximately two meter high menhir on the west side of the 123 hectare nature reserve Stiby Backe in the west of the village of Stiby , about one kilometer northwest of Hällevik , near Sölvesborg on the Listerlandet peninsula in the west of Blekinge in Sweden .

The building stone crowns a flat burial mound from the early Iron Age . The mound probably belongs to a once larger burial ground and prehistoric settlement. Their remains have disappeared over the centuries through agricultural cultivation. There are other burial mounds from the Bronze Age nearby .

From the hill one overlooks the plain between the villages of Stiby and Istaby . The plain was created by glacier wear, the terrain rose above sea level after the end of the Ice Age and the melting of the glaciers.

According to tradition, the legendary menhir should react to the scent of freshly baked bread and turn in the direction of the source of the scent.

Web links

• Stiby Sissa - entry in the database "Fornsök" des Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)
• Description and picture
• Description and picture (Swedish)

Coordinates: 56 ° 1 ′ 9.8 "  N , 14 ° 40 ′ 42.7"  E