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Multi-periodSite Name: Umba ancient labyrinth Alternative Name: Stone Labyrinth UmbaCountry: Russia
NOTE: This site is 31.463 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Turf Maze
Nearest Town: Murmansk Nearest Village: Umba
Latitude: 66.677829N Longitude: 34.344261E
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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An ancient labyrinth which dates back to the 2nd millennium BC
"Some of labyrinths are located near other archaeological objects (primeval site, prehistoric burial places) where the quartz scrapers and drawing knifes, the shale arrowhead, the fragments of asbestine ceramics and the rare fragments of vessels decorated with an ornament have been found. The finding of these cultural artifacts attributes to the so-called "culture of Arctic Neolith (late Stone Age)", which approximately had dated back to the temporal interval of V-I millennium B.C. It allowed Gurina N.N. (1948; 1953), Mullo I.M. (1966) and others to compare age of the labyrinths known in the Kola region and located close to the primeval archeological sites just with the epoch of late Stone Age. Afterwards this age was extrapolated for all stone labyrinths available in the Kola region, and not just on those located near the primeval archeological sites. Due to works of the archeologists the age of the Kola labyrinths is already traditionally defined as the second millennium B.C., i.e. estimated as 3000-4000 years B.P."
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