[Stones] Gotland

[Andy Burnham]

Vidar,
Thanks for creating the fascinating pages. It's very interesting that 
you mention Gotland. My friend and fellow Portaler Jim C went to a day 
of talks in Brighton a few weeks ago organised by the Antiquarian 
Society. One of the speakers was talking about archaeoastronomy and 
showed slides of some stones in Gotland.

These stones were quite small but had many grooves cut in the top. I 
hadn't seen these before. The speculation is that they are astronomical 
alignments. Do you know anything about these?

Did you record GPS long/lats for any of the sites you visited? We are 
compiling a global database of site locations and photos.

Cheers,
Andy

P.S. We've just added several dozen Korean dolmens. We're now waiting for some Korean speakers to turn up! :-)
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/search.php?query=&country=83

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>Hi all
>
>I've been lurking on this list for a few months and enjoyed it so far.
>
>As you can guess from my mail-adress I'm norwegian and live on the small
>island Veierland, in Vestfold county in Norway. Vestfold is on the western
>side of the Oslofjord, which means that there are some sites of interest to
>this list close by where I live. As a matter of fact there are two
>bronze-age burials a couple of hundred meters from our house, admittedly
>small but still :) 
>
>The ship-setting/stone-circle Istrehågan is probably the bestknown site,
>but there are a few more in the area. 
>
>But as you all probably know, the stones are always bigger elsewhere. In
>october we spent some days on the swedish island Gotland visiting mainly
>ship-settings. I've made a blogg with some pictures here:
>
>http://blog.hanshan.org
>
>It was my first go at a blog, so you'll have to start at the bottom to
>follow the chronology of the thing ...
>
>http://iloblog.hanshan.org/blog?NewComment&post=3
>http://iloblog.hanshan.org/blog?NewComment&post=4
>http://iloblog.hanshan.org/blog?NewComment&post=5
>
>Regards,
>Vidar Ringstrøm
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