[1] The burial site is located on a long ridge in a remote area off the road between Tampere and Rauma.

Each cairn was constructed from granite boulders quarried from the cliff face below the ridge or collected on site, in typical Bronze Age fashion.

[2] The Sammallahdenmäki cairns were originally built to have a scenic view of the coast and the Gulf of Bothnia (a hallmark of early Bronze Age burial mounds), but over time, uplift has occurred and the ocean is no longer visible.

[2] The cairns may relate to rituals of sun worship, a religion that spread across Scandinavia during the Bronze Age, and demonstrates kin group land ownership, which is associated with the advent of farming.

[1] The stone cairns were first mentioned in a catalogue of ancient sites in 1878, along with a vague description of an excavation (of which no details survive).