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Sweden has proven to be a fruitful country when it comes to history and ancient archeological monuments. However one specific type of ancient monument stands out in both quantity and in their distribution, trappings pits. Sweden has about 30 000 documented trapping pits spread throughout northern Sweden. However, even though there is a large quantity of trapping pits that have been documented, determining the age of a trapping pit is a difficult task. This practice has been largely debated by Swedish archaeologists and is to this day seen as problematic when it comes to the radiocarbon dating of trapping pits. This thesis will discuss these topics. What exactly does the date show? Will it show the time of its construction? Perhaps the time of its use? Or it could be completely erroneous? Receiving a false radiocarbon dating of an ancient monument could prove very controversial and adverse, because reliable dates are the very foundation needed in order to place an ancient monument in a context. Without being able to date an ancient monument, interpretations of societal origin and function will be harder to determine and largely up for debate. Chronologies only reflect and represent the data and information that has been fed into it. This often leaves an uncertainty concerning which data that actually shows an open and honest representation of trapping pits, and which data shows a false or misleading representation. This thesis will therefore analyze previous chronologies that have been used to represent trapping pits and show exactly how the data was gathered, used and represented. Three primary archaeological studies will therefore be showcased and analyzed to determine if the result can actually represent an honest timeframe of when the pits were constructed.