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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Borgaren Alternative Name: BastelinsåsenCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 9.1 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Vestfold Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Tønsberg Nearest Village: Valberg
Latitude: 59.245768N Longitude: 10.190645E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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On the westermost part of the ridge is a hillfort with 2 parallel walls. The top plateau is slightly rocky and hilly, partly covered with pine and spruce forest, relatively flat. In the south and west the terrain drops off to small rock shelves before plunging steeply down towards the farming fields.
Farthest west - at the side edge of the plateau begins wall 1: Built of quarry stone and blocks and some round boulders. Farthest south - faintly marked, gradually becoming clearer. The first 40m runs in a north direction, here there is clear dry wall. The wall at this point is almost perfectly preserved. The original dry walling is visible here for several metres and the stones are only covered with moss and easily visible. The outside of the wall here is around 2 metres and the inside around 1 metre.
Later, the wall swings in a semi-arc around a gorge with a steep north west sloping stone wall. From here, the wall swings in a slight arc towards the north east. Clear in 30m length, later somewhat sporadically over smooth-ground scree to again emerge clearly. Here the stones are rougher, then turn later at a gate, width 1.5m, to the south and south west for a length of 60m. Here the wall disappears along a steep east-facing slope. Total length: 165m, height: 0.5-1.5m, width: 0.3-2.5m.
Wall 2: On the west side of the hill, a new wall starts which all the way runs parallel to wall 1 in an easterly direction and rather towards the south east and the last part runs in a north-south direction. This wall is rougher, with many large boulders and round stones. The gate is located at wall 1's opening, and is approx. 1 metre wide. Total length approx. 110m, h 0.5-1m, width 0.5-2m. From the north, a clear path comes up along the north-south running ridge between the knolls. This crosses the walls through the gates and continues onto the top plateau. Inside the hillfort area there are no clear traces of a water reservoir, but the plateau is wide enough that it could probably be found.
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