★ UNESCO
World Heritage
World Heritage
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Where in the world
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.
Field notes
- civilizations
- European Bronze Age
- types
- Necropolis · Tumulus
- occupied
- 1,500 BCE — 500 BCE
- country
- Finland