At Kåppatjåkka near Björkliden in the Kiruna mountains, archaeologists from Norrbotten's museum are working to search the area.

They have already found several pieces of bone from reindeer and hope to find arrowheads and other remains after wild reindeer hunting among the rock crawl.

Buried under snow masses for hundreds of years

It is important to take advantage of the opportunity.

When the glaciers melt, the objects emerge after being buried under the snow masses for over a thousand years.

All organic material has been protected in the glacier, but is more exposed when it thaws.

Everything is a piece of the puzzle that can tell you what life in the Iron Age may have looked like in the Swedish mountains.

"Must save what can be saved"

The Norrbotten Museum takes over after a work started by archaeologists from Stockholm University a few years ago.

Only during that time has Jannica Grimbe been able to see a difference when it comes to the melting of the glacier at Kåppatjåkka.

- It is going at a furious pace right now and we simply have to hurry to save what can be saved, she says.

SVT Norrbotten has in collaboration with Oddasat visited the glacier where the archaeologists' survey is ongoing.