Skegrie megalith grave in Skåne, Sweden. Image credit: Jorchr - CC BY-SA 3.0
Megalithic graves appeared more or less simultaneously in southern Sweden and were first used around 3500–3300 cal BC.
In comparison with other countries, Sweden has only about a hundred dolmens, mainly in Skåne, Halland, and Bohuslän. From the beginning, Sweden certainly possessed many more of them. Today, the existing number of these structures constitutes only a tiny part of what once existed.
No one knows precisely how these massive stones were moved and laid in their place.
Today we visit Skegriedösen (Skegrie Dolmen), located in Skegrie Parish in Trelleborg, Skåne, Sweden's most southern county. This dolmen (in Swedish - 'dös') is a stone chamber grave from the Neolithic times.
What we see today are the large boulders. All organic building materials such as reeds, birch bark, cloth, animal skins, and wood have disappeared over time.
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