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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Vahaugen CemeteryCountry: Norway
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Fylke: Sør-Trøndelag Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Trondheim Nearest Village: Meldal
Latitude: 63.124241N Longitude: 9.614410E
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Vahaugen was a burial site from the older iron age. The site is a large round grassy hill with scattered forest looking down on the Meldalen valley. It is a beautiful view over the valley from the top of the hill. All the graves were flat-terrain graves and with no markings on the top of the soil. The dead people were cremated and the bones and ash were collected in small jars and buried in small burial chambers in the soil with items and grave goods.
The site have been dated back to older iron age, from the age of wondering, about 320 to 570AD.
The number of graves are unknown, it could have been several hundred of them. 211 of the graves were excavated between 1917 and 1919. In all of the graves it was found burned bones and charcoal. Only 61 of the graves had grave-goods. These were mostly combs, needles, knifes and arrowheads. It was remains from both sexes and also children.
Vahaugen is the largest burial cemetery from ancient times, it has probably been a cemetery for several farms in this area. This type of burial was in use here for far longer after this type of burials seem to have been out of use in other parts of Norway.
Today there is no visible marks of the graves themselves, but the slabs covering the graves were put together and put in a large cairn and a modern standing stone with a memory inscription has been put up on the top of the hill.
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