The concrete floor of Sankt Lars Kyrka was built in 1802 above the previous medieval church crypt. There are tours of the crypt on Tuesday at 3pm, where fascinating finds include 11th-century gravestones, a teenager's skeleton (complete with fatal blow to the skull) and fragments of the medieval church’s painted roof tiles.
Sankt Lars Kyrka
Småland
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