Oct 15, 2021
Burial place made from rocks at Mølen, Southern Norway. Probably 1,400-1,500 years old, late Iron Age and/or early Viking Age.
This is one of the biggest out of at least 230 cairns in the area. The larger cairns, like this one, were used for ship burials.
Mølen is part of the UNESCO Global Geopark family. Not only because of the cairns, but beacuse this very special morene area was formed at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago.
It’s a beautiful place. Makes the past feel very close.
