ABSTRACT
This book contains descriptions of 150 dolmens and passage graves, which is just over 30 per cent of all surviving certain, or probable, sites in Sweden. I have included in the guide all the most impressive of these monuments and a number of more ruined, or partially destroyed, examples, which may, nevertheless, be of some interest. The choice of which sites to include is, of course, a personal one. I have chosen a wide variety of different types of sites so that the visitor will be able to see the full range of variability in the form and nature of the monuments and their location in the landscape. Ease of access and the difficulty of finding some of the monuments have been other considerations. Some sites known to archaeologists are now totally destroyed, or have been removed from their original positions to museums. Others are so badly wrecked that there is little now to see apart from a mound, or one or two stones. It should be appreciated that there is a difference between the archaeological significance of the monuments and what a visitor can see. Some excavated sites are of great importance because of what the finds tell us about the societies who built them, but the monument itself is poorly preserved. Others still look impressive, but little is known about them because they have either not been excavated, or have been robbed since their construction.
