In the autumn, SVT Nyheter Öst was able to report on thousands of skeletons found in Vreta Kloster.
Now the archaeologists have taken a closer look at the finds.
- We have had to pick up skeletons that have been damaged by plowing or damaged by the excavators, which discovered bone knots when they were digging, says osteologist Caroline Ahlström Arcini.
Thousands of graves at the site
She has examined skeletons from 19 of the more than 70 graves they uncovered along the road outside Vreta Kloster and which they then left behind.
Archaeologists believe that there are thousands of tombs at the site.
- It is a skeleton from a fraction of the graves, but still a good representation of a population, from infants to the elderly, the oldest was over 80 years old when she died, simply parts of a population that we have obtained.
Unique amulet in the grave - see Caroline Ahlström Arcini tell in the clip
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Never before has an amulet in the form of a pierced bear claw been found in a skeletal grave.
Photo: Caroline Ahlström Arcini, Archaeologists Lund
Unaffected for another thousand years
The several hundred graves with the skeleton are only 30-40 centimeters below the ground and Caroline and the archaeologists hope to map out how big the burial site is to be able to protect it.
- For future research, it is very important that the graves remain.
And if they are not disturbed by anything, the skeleton can certainly lie there for at least another thousand years, without anything happening, says Caroline Ahlström Arcini.
Dazzling white smile.
Skull from one of the tombs from the 1000s outside Vreta Kloster.
Photo: Per Lagerås, Archaeologists Lund