9 Memories of featues, memories in finds: the remembrance of the past in Iron Age Scandinavia Lars Larsson Memory in prehistoric societies may be observed in the repetitive use of places and artefacts. Te fact that sites were used for diferent purposes with intervals of several centuries indicates that information about land use, e.g. for ritual purposes, was retained for several generations. In some cases the use of old cemeteries and the copying of old ornaments might act as a link to past times with special attraction. During the excavation of a large settlement site at Uppåkra, southernmost Sweden, a small ceremonial building was found. At least seven stages of the same structure, dating from about 200 AD to the mid-ninth century, were identifed. Te striking sequence of stave buildings might mirror the long and seemingly unchanged memory of religious, social and political importance. Introduction In early 1980s I was studying interesting material from Scania in the southernmost part of Sweden dated to the middle part of the Middle Neolithic, to about 2800 BC. It represented a type of pottery as well as an assemblage of fint tools that had not previously been identifed in southern Sweden (Larsson 1982a). Not only the artefacts but also their fnd context had a special attraction. Tese artefacts were found in long and narrow ditches forming a row and in pits on one side of these ditches. Te structures were similar to causewayed enclosures. At that time, the ditches were dated by the fnds to a later part of the Middle Neolithic (Larsson 1982a). New fnds of causewayed enclosures in Denmark have been dated to a much earlier part of the Neolithic, at about 3400 BC (Andersen 1997). Te fnds on the site that I dated several hundred years later