Gene fornby

Gene Fornby is a reconstructed Iron Age settlement just outside Örnsköldsvik, in Västernorrland County, Sweden.

[1] The earliest traces of human activity found in the area date back to the Nordic Bronze Age, but the settlement itself dated back to the Roman Iron Age, from around the years 400-600 AD.

[2] Historically it was known that there were burial mounds on top of Genesmon, but it was not until the 1960s that they were investigated for the first time by the archaeologist Evert Baudou.

Gene Fornby was laid bare during archaeological excavations conducted by the University of Umeå from 1977 and 1988.

Traces of iron production and processing were uncovered as well as bronze casting and a textile works.