Kolmården

The Kolmården is a wooded mountain ridge in the southwest of Sweden Nyköping. It is located in the Swedish landscapes Östergötland, Orebro and Södermanland and to the east by the Baltic Sea. The highest point is 167 meters high.

In Kolmården the Kolmårdens is djurpark ( Kolmårdens Park ).

Geography

The broad and flattened ridge rises south-west of Nykoping from the Baltic. It is divided by a plurality of transverse valleys and marshy hollows. In the further course towards the west its height is 15 to 60 meters above the surrounding plains, with the back south to Bråviken falls steeply. The north side is less clearly demarcated and goes into the hilly landscape of lakes Södermanland. In the northwest of Kolmården with the ridge Tylöskogen is connected. The geology of the Kolmården predominantly of red gneiss. In some places thicker layers of limestone and marble are included in this. The latter is broken down to the present day (2009) under the name Kolmårdenmarmor.

Archeology

In Kolmården there are a number of well-preserved finds from the Swedish history. In the Stone Age were the today's mountain peaks islands in the Baltic Sea, which were used by Stone Age man as a residential site or resting place. For example, ceramic pieces were with distinctive grooves found near Sater, which were typical for Scandinavia in the 4th millennium BC. From the Middle Stone Age tools were discovered mainly of quartz. The remains of metallurgical huts and charcoal kilns from the Middle Ages bear witness to an intense iron ore processing in this era. Due to the relative inaccessibility of the terrain many archaeological finds are remarkably well preserved.