Stone ships are common around the Baltic see. Just in Gotland, you can find three-hundred-and-fifty of them. They were used as graves in the late bronze age. Deceased were cremated and the urn with bones and ashes were deposited around or in the stone ships.
We took the opportunity of the weekend to sail some of them...
The stone ship in
Djupvik is made of 40 stones and measures
13.5 m x 4 m.
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| Djupvik stone ship |
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| The coast around Djupvik |
The
Gannarve stone ship is located a few kilometres from Djupvik. It is considered as the most beautiful stone ship in Gotland. It measures 29 metres by 4.75 metres.
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| Gannarve stone ship with a view of Stora Karlsjö off the south-west coast of Gotland |
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| Gannarve stone ship |
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| Gotland sheep around Gannarve |
Rannarveskeppen is a stone ship site just north east of Klintehamn. The site consists of 4 ships of 9 metres by 5 metres each, perfectly aligned.
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| A compass rose? |
And below, the smallest stone ship ever assembled on Gotland. One metre long, and a few stones I found around. For the posterity...
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