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Geatland's District of
Kärringsjön
District Leader:
The one sacrificial bog where no war related offerings have been found in what would later become modern Sweden.
Kärringsjön, or Lake Kärring which means Lake of Wenches, in the parish of Övraby in Halland was the site of great sacrifices during the late Roman Iron Age in Geatland. The bog, which is actually not a lake but a bog, measures about 120 meters in diameter and had an arrangement of logs, twigs and stones as well as earthen vessels, with a majority of them being coarse and undecorated and a few which had carved patterns. 
Other items found were bones, of man and animal, flint axes, bronze pots and horns, jewelery, hair braids, small wooden statuettes representing people, which is yet another sign for fertility culture rituals taking place here.
Another interesting detail about the site is that decorative plants had been placed around the lake, making Käringsjön Sweden’s oldest garden.
Nationalencyklopedin Historiska Muséet Fornvännen
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