J N D, 29-6-1856: Who was the girl beneath the forest cross?
A wooden cross in the woods near Hästveda carries only three letters and a date. The heritage register gives no name — the parish records did: Johanna, four years old.
Travel stories and discoveries from real journeys — megalithic tombs, runestones, castle ruins and forgotten places, with original photos and the stories behind them.
A wooden cross in the woods near Hästveda carries only three letters and a date. The heritage register gives no name — the parish records did: Johanna, four years old.
A mass grave from the snapphane era, carvings that look ancient but were made in the 1940s, a walk-in root cellar from 1638 and a croft with its smithy — an evening in northern Skåne.
The Sibbarp battlefield (1657), a redoubt from the Kalmar War and a Bronze Age cairn — two layers of history in one place, with original photos.
A hidden mausoleum, a private burial mound, an ancient grave field and a plague cemetery — a walk to four forgotten resting places in northern Sweden, with original photos.
A hidden standing stone near Hästveda, Bronze Age cup marks at Glimåkra and a whole grave field at Östra Broby — an archaeology trail through northern Sweden, with original photos.