full screen A 3,500-year-old burial cache has been found where the Norrbotniabanan railway is to be built in Västerbotten. Archive image. Photo: Janerik Henriksson/TT
A unique grave has been found at Bygdeå, about four miles north of Umeå. The find is a Bronze Age grave in the form of a long cairn that is over 3,500 years old, reports P4 Västerbotten.
– It is unique that we are excavating this type of long ridge, it has not happened that many times in history, says archaeologist Jans Heinerud to Sveriges Radio.
The find has been made in connection with the planning of the Norrbothnia Railway, which will be a 27-mile long coastal railway between Umeå and Luleå. According to Ann-Christin Burman, cultural environment specialist at the Swedish Transport Administration, the grave find does not delay construction.