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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Virik SkoleCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 1.07 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Vestfold Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Sandefjord
Latitude: 59.125557N Longitude: 10.205612E
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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Cairn in Vestfold
This site consists of one reconstructed burial cairn, one standing stone and one stone with cup marks. The cup marked stone looks like a standing stone but it was originally dug up when the stone cairn was excavated. The other standing stone had previously fallen over but has been restored.
The site is located in the schoolyard in the Virik school. Close to the standing stone there are some wooden benches and some playing apparatuses. The terrain around the site is only short cut grass and sand as schoolchildren plays around here daily. The cairn was excavated in the 1890s and the stone with the cup marks was found in the stone burial chamber. The cairn is 5 metres in diameter and 1,5 metres in height.
The standing stone is around 20 metres away from the cairn and is around 1.80 metres in height and around 40cm wide and 30cm thick. It has a rectangular cross section and a straight top. It is tilting a little to one side.
Just a metre from the cairn is a small stone slab. It is triangular in shape with a rounded top. It is 1,20metres in height and 85cm wide at the base and around 10-15cm thick. On one of the flat sides there is 8 cup markings. The cup marks have been painted red in later years. This stone originally belonged to the burial chamber in the cairn and next to the stone is a large tree.
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