Sammallahdenmaki, Finland

SAMMALLAHDENMAKI (Finland)

In 1878, a catalogue of ancient sites mentioned the pleasantly-named Sammallahdenmaki, in SW Finland, 3 hours by car from Helsinki. It's a Bronze Age burial site with 33 granite burial cairns displaying funerary practices and socio-religious structures of northern Europe from more than three millennia ago. Only 8 have been excavated, 6 Bronze Age and 2 early Iron Age.

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