But the finest of all, though less in size, is the famous one of Blomsholm, near Strömstad, the whole neighbourhood of which is surrounded with mementoes of the past—graves, dom-rings, mounds, bautastones, and rock-tracings.[188] [Illustration: Fig. 727.—Ship-form graves, Blomsholm, Bohuslan, made of forty-nine upright stones (formerly there were fifty-one). Length, 141 feet; greatest breadth, 31½ feet; prows north and south, the northern headstone 11 feet high, the southern 14½, the stones gradually diminishing in size towards the centre, where the largest is about 3 feet. Built on a small mound or elevation which was higher in former times. ] [Illustration: Fig. 728.—Sjusta mound, Skog parish, Upland; 204 feet in circumference; 28 feet high; with a row of stones at its base. At the south end is another stone-set mound. ] [Illustration: Fig. 729.—Type of Mound with bautastone at the top and circle of stones at the base. ] [Illustration: Fig. 730.—Mound, 3 feet high, with bautastone, Balunda parish, Westmanland. ] [Illustration: Fig. 731.—Triangular graves; stone forming the apex, with runes, is about 25 feet from the two others, which are 14 feet apart—Björktorp, Blekinge. ] [Illustration: Fig. 732.—Incomplete mound; 50 feet in circumference; 10 feet high; largest stone over 6 feet high; in Thortuna parish, Westmanland. ] [Illustration: Fig. 733.—Mounds on Kjula-ridge. Södermanland. ] [Illustration: Fig. 734.—Mound set with boulder-stones, Dalsland; circumference of boulders, 100 feet; height of mound, 4 feet, on the top of which are two flat stones standing on edges. Near it is a boulder stone-setting, probably a dom-ring. ] Many of the cairns, which are often beautifully arranged, are small, being 4 or 5 feet in height, or sometimes almost even with the ground, their diameter varying from 20 to 80 feet. Numbers of them have stone-settings, sometimes close, sometimes not. [Illustration: Fig. 735.—Diameter, 20 feet. ] [Illustration: Fig. 736.—Diameter, 16 feet. ] [Illustration: Fig. 737.—Diameter, 16 feet. Cairns—Blekinge. ] [Illustration: Fig. 738.—Round cairn at Björkeby, Foresund, Södermanland. ] [Illustration: Fig. 739.—Square cairn, island of Öland. ] [Illustration: Fig. 740.—Anund’s mound, Vestmanland. Circumference, 652 feet; height 84 feet. A great number of standing or fallen bautastones are found near the mound. ] One of the most interesting graves which have been recently opened in England is one belonging to the manor of Taplow, near Maidenhead, about fifty miles by river above London. The mound, 240 feet in circumference, and 15 feet high, overlooks the Thames and the surrounding lands. [Illustration: Fig. 741.—Gold fibula ornamented with garnets and red glass. ⅔ real size. Taplow, England. ] [Illustration: