The Skallhult plateau is situated in an cast-westerly pass of Hökensås, a mountain ridge that separates the Vätter and Tida basins on the northern border of the South Swedish Highlands. The plateau has formerly been interpreted as an ice marginal delta built up in the Baltic Ice Lake (Munthe 1940) or in a local ice lake which covered the Vätter and Tida basins south of the ice margin (cf. Munthe 1910 and Nilsson 1939, 1953, 1968). These interpretations have been forwarded without any descriptions or proofs as regards morphology and stratification.