Uppåkra presented an impressive sight in the landscape. Longhouses, workshops, kilns, storage buildings, and cattle sheds were scattered across an area covering at least 44 hectares (equivalent to over 80 football fields!). People from near and far gathered here to exchange goods and ideas. The craftsmanship produced on site, as well as the traded goods, were often of very high quality. In Uppåkra’s soil, archaeologists have found long-distance imports such as coins, jewelry, and glass from various parts of the continent — even from places like Russia, Iraq, Uzbekistan, and Tunisia. Metal detection of the top plow layer, carried out in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has resulted in a staggering 28,000 artifacts made of silver, gold, copper, and bronze, making Uppåkra one of the richest archaeological sites in Scandinavia. Click below on the Google Maps link to see the coordinates for the location of the Völund find.

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