ABSTRACT

There was this massacre in a beautiful landscape. Children’s bones haunt the archaeologists at Sandby borg, on the Swedish island called Öland. A world’s media arrived at the fortress swiftly after the discovery. The hidden treasure, some in bags stashed around the site, now adorn the museum on the mainland. Tales of superstition circulate like wildfire. In this chapter, we will briefly present our Experimental Heritage project which is all about sound (subsuming music), place and heritage. It is about a mound from sound built with help from different community groups in relation to this Iron Age site, its violent history and current world crises.