The aim of this article is to summarize and discuss the results of a recently published synthesis of cooking pits and cooking pit sites in the county of Västernorrland. Several syntheses have been produced in relation to the subject, but none covering the entire county. In total 282 cooking pits were compiled and analysed with regard to research methodology, dating, geographical distribution, contents, morphology, and context. The existence of larger cooking pit sites and their possible relations to the cooking pit fields in Norway and southern Scandinavia was investigated as well. The results indicate that several separate groups of cookingpits can be distinguished in the material with regard to dating, distribution, and context. The contents of the cooking pits vary over time and probably according to function as well. As for morphology, insufficient documentation is an ever present problem, and a homogeneous strategy of documentation is clearly needed. Thereis a need also to analyse and discuss the collective properties and capacities of larger cooking pit sites. The study has highlighted a problem of representativity as well, concerning the proportion of cooking pits that is carbondated relative to the total number on a site. Finally, the results indicate that the southern Scandinavian phenomenon of large cooking pit fields is not represented in Västernorrland. However, there are a small number of locales in Njurunda that in dating as wellas context show a certain similarity to the Norwegian cooking pit sites of the Roman Iron Age and the Migration Period.