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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: MardalCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 28.322 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Sogn og Fjordane Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Ålesund Nearest Village: Sandane
Latitude: 61.759625N Longitude: 6.195107E
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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The terrace is a flat grassy field with the barrows in a cluster on the north-east edge. The barrows are covered only with grass and some larger trees and are all easily visible. The cemetery have a small fence surrounding the barrows. One of the large barrows is on the edge of a lower terrace a little more to the north east. The cemetery have a size of 200 metres East to west and only 30 metres north to south.
The cemetery consists of 10 barrows. Five large (four of them almost monumental) and five smaller. The four largest barrows are built in two groups of two and two so close that their edges touch each other. The eastern of these barrows is a beautiful cone shaped barrow around 22 metres in diameter and 4 metres in height. The west barrow separated only by a metre is another beautiful round barrow 25 metres in diameter and 4 metres in height. Two huge birch trees is growing on each side of a crater on top of the barrow.
To the north east of the terrace is a small lower triangular terrace with a single barrow separated from the others. This barrow is 15 metres in diameter and 2 metres in height. It is only covered in grass and has a very beautiful profile. From the nearby road there is a footpath leading north to the barrow cemetery and cuts the west part of the site.
Two other large barrows are built almost edge to edge in the west part of the cemetery. One is 18 metres in diameter and 3 metres in height. The top appears to have been a little flattened. The other barrow is 22 metres in diameter and also 3 metres in height. These two "twin" barrows have several large trees growing on them but are still easily visible and also have beautiful shapes.
The smaller barrows are located on a lower part of the large natural terrace and slightly lower than the larger barrows on the top terrace. These barrows consists of four round and one larger long barrow. The long barrow is 15 metres in length, around 8 metres wide and 1 metre in height. It is parallel to the small footpath leading trough the cemetery. The other barrows are smaller, 4 to 8 metres in diameter and 0,5 to 1 metre in height. These are more difficult to see and are also more overgrown with trees than the larger ones on the top part.
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