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Natural PlacesSite Name: FaaborgstenenCountry: Denmark
NOTE: This site is 0.225 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Fyn, Langeland and Islands Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Faaborg
Latitude: 55.093067N Longitude: 10.243283E
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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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The Faaborg Stone
The dinosaurs disappeared about 65 million years ago. By that time the Faaborg Stone already was more than 935 million years old. The Faaborg Stone originally was a piece of the Swedish bedrock that was chopped off by a glacier and travelled with the ice to Denmark. Show it real respect - it is really old!
The Faaborg Stone weighs about 60 tonnes. It was discovered in year 2000 when a vegestable garden was being dug. The stone consists of granite formed several kilometres beneath the earth's surface under hight pressure and great heat. The granite later hardened and in the course of many million of years has gradually risen while at the same time the surface of the earth was exposed to erosion.
The Faaborg Stone was transported to Funen with glacier ice about 15,000 years ago. When the ice melted, the stone was left behind. In the Faaborg area the glacier ice moved from Northeast towards Southwest i.e. from Souther Sweden towards Funen, and the stone's mineral composition is also similar to that of the granite boulders in Southerns Sweden. It is therefore highly likely that the stone originally came from there.
Recently (year 2008) a somewhat smaller stone with a runic inscription was found among other boulders used as wave breakers in the coastal protection. This Runic Stone unfortunately introduces some confusion because the museum people also has named this other stone, The Faaborg Stone.
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