Skyrim:Unmarked Places

Overview | Eastmarch — Falkreath — Haafingar — Hjaalmarch — The Pale — The Reach — The Rift — Whiterun — Winterhold — Solstheim

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This article describes places of interest in Skyrim that are not marked on your map, are not represented by icons on your compass, and aren't directly related to any quests. Some of the places on this list do not have official names or titles, in which case unofficial names have been used to describe the places.

Bandit Camps and Bandit Ambushes

• On the road between Helgen and Riverwood, just south of the Guardian Stones and east of a Shrine of Talos, there is a camp inhabited by three leveled bandits. It contains a chest, Treasure Map I, and a copy of the One-handed skill book Night Falls on Sentinel. (map)
• Between Dawnstar and Pale Imperial Camp, there is a camp inhabited by three leveled bandits. It has a chest, food barrels and a copy of the Block skill book Death Blow of Abernanit. (map)
• At the northern cliff of Whiterun, there is a recess used as a bandit camp. It is filled with various food sacks, food barrels, crates, a rack containing a few potions, alchemy ingredients, and several bottles of skooma, and an adept-locked chest. Three more bandits will ambush you upon opening the chest. This site contains a copy of the Pickpocket skill book Aevar Stone-Singer. (map)
• On the road between Helgen and Haemar's Shame is a wrecked Khajiit caravan, complete with two carts, seven dead Khajiit and two dead horses. In the furthest cart is some sacks and a chest, as well as a copy of the Speech skill book, The Buying Game. When you approach from Helgen, multiple bandits will ambush you, usually consisting of one or two melee fighters and two archers. If you head up the road over the hill and then turn around and come back, another three-four bandits will spawn around the wreckage and attack. Note that this ambush only spawns if you head directly there after exiting Helgen. If you went through Helgen Keep with Hadvar, you can go to Riverwood, recruit Faendal, and have him help you battle the bandits and collect the skill book for you, but only if you do not enter Alvor's house. If you went through Helgen Keep with Ralof, the bandits and caravan will disappear as soon as you enter Riverwood or another village or city. If you've already spawned the ambush previously, by the time the nearby Stormcloak camp spawns (which happens only after visiting a major city), the caravan remains will have been cleared up and all the bandits will respawn, sitting around the stump just off the road to the right. They will be non-hostile unless spoken to, or outright attacked.

Caravan Remains and Shipwrecks

• On the side of the road southeast of Dragon Bridge is a caravan loaded with crates, rugs, and a knapsack. Next to it are the corpses of a horse, a Nord man, and a Redguard woman, the latter carrying the Merchant's Journal. Falmer arrows stuck in the horse, other Falmer arrows around the location, and a Falmer ear suggest a Falmer attack, possibly related to the nearby Chillwind Depths. (map)
• South of The Lady Stone is a shipwreck beneath the waters of Lake Ilinalta. The shipwreck contains a chest and a leveled weapon. (map)
• Northeast of the Wreck of the Winter War are the sparse remains of ship. Among the oars and wood are three barrels. A short distance to the north is a birds' nest with a pine thrush egg. (map)
• East of Knifepoint Ridge and west of the Evergreen Woods dragon mound, there are remnants of a caravan loaded with crates, rugs, and a chest. Next to it are the corpses of a horse and two burned humanoids. (map)

Creature Lairs

• Southeast of Evergreen Grove is a bugling elk near a stony Nordic bust. A hostile animal often wanders into the area. (map)
• Southwest of Swindler's Den and northeast of Gjukar's Monument is a dead bandit next to a nirnroot presumably killed by a hostile animal. The bandit carries a copy of the Speech skill book Beggar (map)
• Northeast of Swindler's Den and southwest of Greenspring Hollow there is a river isle with hostile Mudcrabs, a helm on a skull, an iron ore deposit, and a mammoth skeleton. (map)
• On the coast between Dawnstar and the Wreck Of The Brinehammer, there is an upturned skiff inhabited by two mudcrabs and containing a skeleton hand, a knapsack, a scimitar, two pieces of mudcrab chitin, and a copy of the Alteration skill book Daughter of the Niben. (map)
• One or two bears lair WNW of Halldir's Cairn under a rocky overhang. The corpses of two hunters and an elk are found on the site, and beehives can be found in the trees nearby.
• Underwater in the east end of Lake Ilinalta, southwest of Anise's Cabin, there is a sunken ruin where two slaughterfish reside. The ruins also contain a leveled mace, two soul gems in a stone bowl, and an unlocked chest under the stairs.

Houses

• Northwest of the Western Watchtower lies a ruined shack, with a usable bed. There is a hidden chest under some broken floorboards, between the bed and ruined fireplace. This chest is bugged and will not display as "Empty" even if it contains nothing. If you have Fall of the Space Core, Vol 1 installed, the Space Core will crash-land in this shack. (map)
• Northeast of Ustengrav and north of Hjaalmarch Stormcloak Camp, there is a ruined, burning shack. Fire continuously burns the previous occupant and remaining furniture. Before dragons are activated, this shack is home to a single bandit. (map)
• In a valley south of Forelhost there is another burning shack where fire continuously burns the previous occupant and remaining furniture. A scroll of Conjure Flame Atronach can be found here, indicating a possible cause of the fire. Some potatoes and leeks may be harvested from the untouched garden. (map)
• With Fishing installed, there is a hut on the coast west of Dawnstar which contains a bed, various furniture, fishing supplies, and other supplies. (map)

Hunter's Camps

• There is a downhill path west of the Guardian Stones which leads to a fisherman's camp. With Fishing installed, this site becomes a fishing spot. (map)
• On a small island in the eastern part of Lake Ilinalta, there is another fisherman's camp. (map)
• On the northwestern part of Lake Ilinalta, there is another camp belonging to a fisherman. This camp contains a copy of the One-handed skill book Fire and Darkness. (map)
• West of Sunderstone Gorge lies a hunter's camp. It consists of a chest, a sack, a small tent with a bedroll, and a hunter's bow with 12 iron arrows. One hunter lives here. (map)
• Southeast of Autumnshade Clearing is a camp occupied by a pair of hunters. One of their tents contains a copy of the Archery skill book The Gold Ribbon of Merit. (map)
• Due south of The White Hall in Dawnstar and southeast of the Shrine of Dibella is a small camp occupied by two hunters. (map)
• 290 ft N of North Cold Rock Pass, is an unmarked hunter encampment, occupied by a single hunter. Under the tent is a copy of the Archery skill book The Gold Ribbon of Merit. (map)

Warlock Altars

• Halfway between Cracked Tusk Keep and Evergreen Grove is a Nordic altar occupied by a necromancer. The altar holds two poisons and a copy of the Conjuration skill book 2920, Frostfall, v10.
• East of Sleeping Tree Camp, there is a Nordic altar with the corpses of two necromancers, one lying on the altar and one on the ground nearby. The necromancer on the altar carries a copy of the Conjuration skill book Liminal Bridges. Two skeletons are stationed by the altar and a hooded skeleton patrols the area east.
• North of Lakeview Manor, there is a Nordic altar occupied by a necromancer. This site contains embalming tools, a sword, a burial urn, and the Conjuration skill book 2920, Hearth Fire, v9. (map)

Smaller Places of Interest

• South of South Brittleshin Pass is an empty dock. With the Fishing creation, some fishing supplies can be found here. Fish from Temperate Lakes can be caught here. (map)
• Northwest of Fallowstone Cave, partway up the mountain slope, there is an unmarked clearing with a silver ore vein and an orichalcum ore vein. A copy of the Illusion skill book Incident at Necrom is well-hidden at the base of one of the trees on that slope. (map)
• West-southwest of Knifepoint Ridge, if you climb the ridge to the top, you'll find a skeleton with a blood-spattered knapsack and leveled bow lying next to it. (map)
• Between Reachwater Rock and Kolskeggr Mine there's an abandoned rowboat at a bend in the river. In the boat are some bottles, an apothecary's satchel, an adept-locked strongbox, and one each of the following gems: an emerald, a garnet, a flawless garnet, a ruby, a flawless ruby, and a flawless diamond. In the river next to the boat is a chest and two mead barrels. (map)
• West of Whitewatch Tower is a novice-locked strongbox in the midst of a few fallen stone walls. (map)
• Southeast of Karthwasten, at a point roughly between Four Skull Lookout and Sundered Towers, there is a locked strongbox with a leveled dagger leaned up against it hidden in the center of a pile of driftwood. (map)

A tattered flag and an unfortunate soul

• In the mountains almost due east of Ragnvald, between it and Bthardamz, a dead Orc bandit can be found draped over a novice-locked chest containing minor loot. A random one-handed weapon is beside it, and another one is carried by the Orc. Two dead wolves next to him hint at his cause of death. (map)
• East of Haemar's Shame, on the east side of the mountain pass between Helgen and the western lands of the Rift, a pile of stones marks a steep, narrow path heading east from the road up through a small notch in the rock walls of the pass. A quicksilver ore deposit and a copy of the Alteration skill book Daughter of the Niben can be found at the end of this path. (map)
• On an island west of Broken Oar Grotto there is a flag on a pole, at the base of which is an unlootable skeleton. There are also two gold ore veins on the island. (map) ESO's developers have stated that this island appears in ESO as Kyne's Aegis.
• West-northwest of Haemar's Shame and east of Falkreath Stormcloak Camp is an overhanging rock face. Underneath lies a skeleton with a coin purse, along with a few animal bones. There are two snowberry bushes here as well. (map)
• Due west of Graywinter Watch, on a spit of land sticking out into the middle of the river, is a novice-locked chest hidden among some driftwood. (map)
• Up along the mountainside due east of Wolfskull Cave and due south of the Steed Stone is a dead female bandit with two leveled potions and a sack of food, right next to a tree. To find them, walk along the road east from the cave until you come to a broken tree trunk on the left; she is above that. Just past this is the stump of a tree which marks a place where you can climb high enough to jump up to the ledge she is on. (map)
• East of Bruca's Leap Redoubt and southwest of Dragon Bridge Overlook at the bottom of the middle waterfall is an apprentice-locked dungeon boss chest. It's near a fallen tree crossing the river. (map)
• Southeast of Angarvunde and northwest of Avanchnzel is a lean-to sheltering an apprentice-locked strongbox, two lockpicks, and two leveled potions (healing and invisibility). Two canis roots grow next to it. (map)
• Northwest of Orotheim on the river shore in a tiny alcove is a lootable skeleton next to a novice-locked common chest. (map)
• Southwest, next to Orphan Rock is a lootable skeleton, helm, and coin purse in a hollow fallen tree. Mora tapinella grows on the tree. (map)
• North of North Brittleshin Pass in the valley leading to it is an apprentice-locked strongbox in a hollow fallen tree. (map)
• North of North Brittleshin Pass just on the other side of the road is an apprentice-locked strongbox inside a circle of small dead trees and bloodied grasses. (map)
• Northeast of Windhelm and south of Snow Veil Sanctum is a coin bag sitting on the Lockpicking skill book The Wolf Queen, v1. (map)
• Southeast of the wreck of The Pride of Tel Vos on an island is a helm inside the trunk of a hollow fallen tree along with the Heavy Armor skill book Chimarvamidium. (map)
• Northeast of Ivarstead and southwest of Darkwater Crossing on the southern shore of a river is a dungeon chest. That section of the river has a keyhole shape and is at the base of a waterfall almost due south of and very close to the location of Aevar Stone-Singer (as described above). (map)
• West of Redoran's Retreat and due south of Greenspring Hollow is a rock pile with an iron helm in the mountain flowers at the base. (map)
• Southeast from South Skybound Watch, at the base of a large tree surrounded by boulders and rocks is a skull with a red mountain flower in its mouth, perched atop an apothecary's satchel.