Swedish archaeologists said on Friday the discovery of the largest Iron Age monument in the country, in the region of the Old Upsal, before the Viking era.
The researchers were preparing to dig the ground for the construction of a new railway line, 70 km north of Stockholm, when faced with two rows of wooden pillars.
An archaeologist from the Swedish National Heritage Board, Lena Borenius-Joerpeland indicated that the monument near a necropolis of the Iron Age Scandinavian, seems to go back to the fifth century
The larger of the two rows has a mile long, and against with 144 pillars. The other has half that.
“The pillars were high, perhaps measuring eight to ten feet,” explained Lena Borenius-Joerpeland.
“They were seen at a great distance and probably marked the access to Old Upsal,” he continued.
“Could it is a religious or territorial demarcation,” he added.
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are only preserved some remains of pillars and holes in which they were stored.
Archaeologists have also found bones of horses, cows and pigs in the holes of the pillars of evidence, they said, that there were euthanized animals.
However, who raised the monument and for what purpose remains a mystery.
“It could be a landmark territorial or religious demarcation,” said Borenius-Joerpeland.
In the Iron Age in Scandinavia, the Old Upsal was an important center of trade, religion, crafts and judicial administration.
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