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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: KvegjerdetCountry: Norway
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Fylke: Sør-Trøndelag Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Trondheim Nearest Village: Malvik
Latitude: 63.415387N Longitude: 10.631268E
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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This extensive barrow cemetery stretches along a high ridge going south-north with farming landscape on both sides. The cemetery is inside a grazing pen for sheeps so the vegetation is kept low, making it easy to see the many cairns.
The cemetery consists of 22 registrated barrows and cairns but the site could also contain a number of previously unknown stone settings and flat ground burials. According to askeladden the site has not yet been fully explored. Most of the cairns are round but there are also some oval shaped cairns.
When walking up to the cemetery from the east I came up on a very pretty round barrow with a beautiful and clear stone ring around it. The barrow is around 18 metres in diameter, 1,5 metres in height.
On top of the ridge itself there are several visible round cairns. The largest is around 22 metres in diameter and around 1 metre in height, it has a flattened top. Another large and low burial cairn is around 20 metres in diameter and as the round barrow it also has a stone ring around its edges. The largest burial cairn is around 25 metres in diameter and around 3 metres in height. The cairns are buildt on natural rocky outcrops so some of the cairns appear larger than they actually is.
The site also has two standing stones that has fallen down, I found one of them laying on the ground, it is around 2,5 metres in length and 1 metre wide. I hope someday it can be reconstructed! There are also a lot of smaller cairns on the site and some of them have ditches around them. They are from 7 to 12 metres in diameter. The oldest cairns are believed to be from older iron age, around 200AD. During the construction of a garage nearby there was found a iron sword and some other pieces of weaponry that later was dated to around 250AD, the roman iron age period.
There are current plans to make the cemetery more accessable to visitors with parking and information signs.
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