Shards of Roman ceramics found in ancient graves in western Sweden suggest there was more contact between the Romans and Swedes than thought.
Archaeologists at the site in Stenungsund, around 30 miles north of Gothenburg, found the ceramic pieces along with some charred bones from two people, which were dated between the years 1 and 300 AD, said Bengt Nordqvist, who is leading the dig for Sweden's National Heritage Board.
He told Sweden's English-language newspaper The Local the finds challenge previous migration theories.
"The discovery shows that contact between Sweden and the Roman Empire was possibly much greater than we used to believe," Nordqvist said.
The excavation was ordered before the town granted permission to turn the land into soccer fields, the newspaper said.
Well, technically, this doesn't refer to the actual mechanism by which Roman artifacts found their way to Sweden. Technically, it could have made it there through trade/exchange with nary a Roman and Swede crossing paths.
That's the whole thing.