Anundshog

Anundshog is about sixty metres across and nine metres high, which is usually reckoned the largest burial mound in the country, and dating puts the burial somewhere in the late Iron Age, between roughly the sixth and eighth centuries. What surrounds it matters as much: five stone settings in the shape of ships, one of them over fifty metres long, a line of standing stones marking the course of an old road, and a runestone raised by Folkvid for his son. Excavation has also found a long row of postholes that carried what must have been a marked processional route. The site is open ground and free, with a cafe in season.

What you actually see

• A mound sixty metres across - usually reckoned Sweden's largest.
• Five stone ship settings - one over fifty metres.
• A runestone by the road - raised by Folkvid.
• A marked processional line - postholes found by excavation.

When to go

April to October. An hour and a half.

Honest expectations

There is nothing built - it is a field with mounds and stones. Interpretation on site is limited. It is exposed with no shelter. The cafe is seasonal.

Nearby

Vasteras is south-west; Lake Malaren is south.