2024

KING'S TOMB (BREDARÖR)

Cemetery to visit

South of Kivik, the curious King's Tomb is a stone mound 75 m in circumference with rock paintings depicting horses, carts and humans. The site was a quarry until 1748, when two farmers discovered a 3.25-metre tomb built with ten slabs of stone. The grave, which dates to the Bronze Age, is estimated to be about 3,000 years old. After the excavation, the tomb was restored, but no one knows if it looks like its original state. A very mysterious place.

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