TY - JOUR AU - Damell, David PY - 1993/12/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - About Royal Manors from the Late Iron Age in Middle Sweden JF - Current Swedish Archaeology JA - csa VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.37718/CSA.1993.04 UR - https://publicera.kb.se/csa/article/view/1264 SP - 39-47 AB - <p>How royal power arose in Sweden and how this affected the creation of the State, has&nbsp;always been the focus of discussion among scientists and laymen. This is certainly&nbsp;because royal power can be connected to some of the most important ancient monument&nbsp;areas in the country such as Gamla Uppsala, Adelsö hovgård etc. In these areas there are&nbsp;visible remains of monuments and cemeteries as well as remains of terraces, plateaus etc.&nbsp;How these royal seats were formed is at present unknown. Excavations in many of&nbsp;these ancient momument areas during the last decade have, however, shown that the&nbsp;royal seats were constructed in a certain pattern. In this regard the excavated royal seats&nbsp;at Gamla Uppsala, Fornsigtuna, Adelsö hovgård and Husby-Enhörna are the only seats&nbsp;addressed in the paper. Each of these seats has strong similarities with one another. It&nbsp;seems possible though to start future excavations of other royal seats based upon the&nbsp;results described in the paper.</p> ER -