Sweden's First Restoration of an Ancient Monument - the burial ground Hemlanden on Birka

Abstract

In Sweden, there is a centuries-old tradition of making visible and providing data about a selection of the country's ancient remains through land management and information at these sites. This work has been carried out in different ways, but the purpose has always been to protect, make visible and to inform the public about our cultural heritage. Today this is routine, but at the beginning of the 20th century there were major tensions regarding how cultural heritage should be cared for.

Keywords

• archaeology
• sweden
• viking age sites
• land management
• agricultural use
• biological cultural heritage