me and my family reached the fishing village of Kaseberga on the coast
of Scania in southern Sweden we will be visiting one of the countries and enigmatic
sites the Ales Stenar or Ale's stones we climb the rugged trail up to
the coastline ridge and follow the signs to the stone ship Ales Stenar is a
megalithic monument and Sweden's largest preserved stone ship oval in outlined
some people believe it is a burial monument while others think it is an
ancient astronomical clock as the stones are positioned so that the Sun Goes Down
at the northwestern corner in summer and rises exactly at the opposite corner in
winter the older record of the name Ales
Stenar dated back to 1624 and the oldest
drawing of the stone ship is associated with ships and seafaring but actual
monument was mentioned in the list of lands belonging to the Diocese of Lund
at the beginning of fifteen hundred's stone ships like Ale's stones were often
built during the Viking era between 800 to 10:58 sheep-like monuments were also
erected during the early Bronze Age from around 1100 to 400 BC but they had a
slightly different form then after walking for less than a mile
we finally reach the stones the stones has been a subject of several
archaeological and geophysical surveys since the late 1980s relatively few
objects have been found inside the ship a simple ceramic pot with traces of
burnt human bones in charcoal from 400 to 500 building indicates that the place
was once used as a burial site yet who was buried earth remains a mystery but
it is unlikely that the stone ship existed at the time analysis showed that
the Ale's stones were erected sometime during the period 500 to 1000 AD traces
have also been found around the stone ship that are not visible from above
ground this could be from a stone each grain that was once removed the 59
called boulders in the formation which is made the shape of a long ship it was
possibly symbolic of a craft that will ferry the dead to their internal fate
some of the boulders in the stone ship had already been dragged to Kasehuvud
during the late Stone Age then there is a legend
legend has it that King Ale the strong a figure from Swedish myth is buried
under the henge although there's not a great evidence on the site to confirm
this more likely it's a lesser known Viking ship thing or someone was meant
to be buried this part and the stones were erected to honor his eternal memory
but according to scientific reasoning such as hoard crow horse the monument is
connected to the summer solstice and lunar standstill
the Ales Stenar are outlined as a ship here it shows the well-known alignment
of the ship along with the sense of direction and summer solstice they
propose that the alignments of the stones along the northern possible moonset and major
minor lunar standstills it is possible that the megalithic monument was used
for observing the cycles of the moon the latter explanation seems more plausible
but still the Viking stone ship to a legendary burial ground is more
entertaining because it captures the imagination they played around the
stones as if they were an outlander TV series then walk around and headed to
the coast
so that's it for history scientific theory and The Legend of Ales Stenar who
still baffles people up to this date until next time don't forget to hit like
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