Talk:Ale's Stones

Architecture Low‑importance

	Architecture portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Sweden Mid‑importance

	Sweden portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sweden, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sweden-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SwedenWikipedia:WikiProject SwedenTemplate:WikiProject SwedenSweden articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Paranormal

	This article falls under the scope of WikiProject Paranormal, which aims to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to the paranormal and related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the attached article, help with current tasks, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and discussions.ParanormalWikipedia:WikiProject ParanormalTemplate:WikiProject Paranormalparanormal articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Norse history and culture Mid‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Norse history and culture, a WikiProject related to all activities of the North Germanic peoples, both in Scandinavia and abroad, prior to the formation of the Kalmar Union in 1397. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.Norse history and cultureWikipedia:WikiProject Norse history and cultureTemplate:WikiProject Norse history and cultureNorse history and culture articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

Middle Ages Low‑importance

	Middle Ages portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Middle Ages, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the Middle Ages on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Middle AgesWikipedia:WikiProject Middle AgesTemplate:WikiProject Middle AgesMiddle Ages articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Archaeology Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Archaeology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Archaeology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchaeologyWikipedia:WikiProject ArchaeologyTemplate:WikiProject ArchaeologyArchaeology articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Cemeteries Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cemeteries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Cemeteries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CemeteriesWikipedia:WikiProject CemeteriesTemplate:WikiProject CemeteriesCemeteries articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Untitled[edit]

I just read an article in DN about a recent phony (re)discovery of a megalithic site where the expert interviewed claims that Ale's Stones were restored without proper examinations of the exact original position of the stones. I think this would be relevant to mention in the article, but using a more precise source.

Peter ^Isotalo 20:39, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Peter, the "restoration" (where the stones were carelessly raised and the soil around them bulldozed) happened in 1956 [1]. Some stones outside the ship setting, shown in older photographs and sketches, were apparantly carted away. If you find the time to write about it, you could perhaps illustrate the section with photographs of the pre-restoration position of the stones, which should now be in the public domain (some were published in 1914). The famous sketch by C.G.G. Hilfelings from 1777, showing the stones' original position, [2], [3], is perhaps already in commons. I'll check. Short on time though, so I'll have to leave the writing about the brutal "excavation" methods of the 1950s to someone else. Best, Pia (talk) 20:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I put the image up on the commons: [4]. I have also added it to the swedish article, but the english one requies some more work. Mossig (talk) 18:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Contradictory dates of creation[edit]

The first paragraph says that it's been dated to 500 AD at the end of the nordic iron age. Later in the article it says 600 CE/AD and the referenced source calls it the early iron age. The C14 data may be contradictory because of error bars or other reasons but that's not a reason to confuse the reader. I'm not a historian. Like the average reader I have no idea about the subject and in the end choose to read the article at http://www.raa.se/cms/extern/en/places_to_visit/our_historical_sites/ales_stenar.html instead. Ypps (talk) 17:21, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Aha, that inconsistency! Fixed! (I thought you meant the one: 600 CE vs. 6000 BC.) Mossig (talk) 18:44, 8 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes it makes sense now. The Swedish NE encyclopedia tells me the Swedish iron age is taken to be (~450 BC - ~1050 CE). I suppose the one who wrote the www.raa.se article used a different definition of the iron age period to get it to be early iron age, or that they made a mistake.Ypps (talk) 05:15, 17 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is the weight of the stones?[edit]

The English Wikipedia says up to 1.8 tonnes, but there are a lot of websites (including the Scandinavian wikipedia sites) stating approximately 5 tonnes. I haven't been able to figure out what's right. Anybody got a correct figure? Azazel12345 (talk) 11:31, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The figure presumably comes from here [5] which gives a range from 500 to 1800 kg. I can't find any sources (in the Scandinavian articles of elsewhere) that gives the large number. Mikenorton (talk) 13:48, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Picture title[edit]

The title under the picture reads "Ale's Stones at Kåseberga, around ten kilometres southeast of Ystad.", but 10 km SE of Ystad is in the Baltic Sea. Suggest changing it to read east-southeast or east, but not southeast.76.88.1.215 (talk) 16:10, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Ale's Stones. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 09:54, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]