Sammallahdenmäki

European Bronze Age · Finland

Field notes

civilizations

European Bronze Age

types

Necropolis · Tumulus

occupied

1,500 BCE — 500 BCE

country

Finland

The site

Sammallahdenmäki is a Bronze Age burial site at Rauma in the Satakunta region of Finland. It gathers 33 granite burial cairns raised more than 3,000 years ago, between 1500 and 500 BCE. As one of the largest, most complete and most important Bronze Age sites in Fennoscandia, this stony necropolis was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.

Nearby sites

~306 km

Birka

~640 km

Rock Carvings in Tanum

~932 km

Jelling

~957 km

Biskupin