Stora Skeppholmen - Södra Buskär
Here you can step ashore straight into history:
31. Stora Skeppholmen: Ancestor of the town of Lysekil. There was life and movement and the smoking of herring, there were traders and merchants. The street and the foundations of sixteenth-century houses and sheds survive.
32. Saltö: Monumental gravefield from the Bronze and Iron ages at the top of the hill, in the middle of an old channel. The view is superb.
33. Sladholmarna: The most important thing here was fish. Here are remains of simple greystone huts where fishermen sheltered for the night. And the ruins of the eighteenth- century fish-oil plant.
34. Sköllbergsvik, Härnäset: Once a real fishing community with an all-year population. Abandoned or destroyed for unknown reasons. Archaeological finds give glimpses of the sixteenth century.
35. Hållö: The island of smooth, gentle forms, with an earlier history as an old outport from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Traces of this time are carved into the rock: initials and dates in particular. Do not miss Slätte hälla, one of the strangest and grandest of granite shapes.
36. Södra Buskär: Once an internationally known harbour along the Great Channel of the day. Abundant maritime inscriptions, on the top of the hill around the Bronze Age cairn, later reshaped as a navigation mark. Nobody has yet been able to decipher the double line of text in even, old-fashioned lettering....
