Neptune's fields

Neptune's fields (Swedish: Neptuni åkrar) is a nature reserve in the north of the island of Öland, Sweden.

Located in Borgholm Municipality along the Kalmar Strait, north of the village of Byxelkrok, it consists of a long stretch of cobble beach covered with Echium vulgare which blossoms in June and July, coloring the entire area blue.

[1] It was named by Carl Linnaeus, who visited the place on his 1741 journey to the island.

The latter measures 150 by 30 m (492 by 98 ft) and contains 32 small stone circles, nine cists, twelve round cairns, and one in the shape of a three pointed star (treudd).

A bit further south, just a kilometer north of Byxelkrok, is Höga Flisa (the Tall Shard), a 1.70 m (5.6 ft) high limestone.