Tingstad Flisor
Tingstad Flisor

Tingstad Flisor

Tingstad flisor are two, roughly three meters high, hewn limestone chips that are erected high up on a seawall. In an open landscape, the shards can be seen from afar and they probably served as landmarks for those who traveled across the sever. From many villages around the alvaret, inconspicuous roads lead towards the tiles, which is Öland's most famous meeting place.

The place is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1393. According to folk tradition, people from the surrounding villages gathered to decide common matters, settle disputes and deliver judgments. It has also been suggested that the shards, which stand at a 90 degree angle to each other, may have functioned as a sundial where the narrowest shadow from each shard marked the beginning and end of the thing. No one knows when the tiles were erected. But they stand on a burial ground where there are remains from both the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Among other things, there are several large burial mounds from the Bronze Age nearby.