Tingstad flisor

Tingstad flisor are two limestone slabs on the Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea ; their location is considered the most famous possible thing place on the island.

The two three-meter-high cut limestone slabs stand upright in the middle of the barren Alvar landscape of the Stora Alvaret and probably served as a point of orientation. It was first mentioned in a document in 1393. Only documented by tradition, it is assumed that the plates mark a place where the villagers were judged. You are on a burial ground that was used in both the Bronze Age and the Iron Age . Several Bronze Age roos are in the vicinity.

In the flat, vegetation-poor landscape, the slabs could be seen from afar and may also have served as signposts. Originally the vegetation here was even smaller than it is today. Since the two stones are at an angle of 90 degrees to each other, there are also assumptions that they served as a sundial and indicated the beginning and end of meetings.