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Submitted by kenntha88 on Monday, 28 September 2020  Page Views: 388

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Stokke-Prestegårdsskogen
Country: Norway Fylke: Vestfold Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Tønsberg  Nearest Village: Stokke
Latitude: 59.222256N  Longitude: 10.319327E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Stokke-Prestegårdsskogen submitted by kenntha88 : Site in Vestfold Norway (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery in Vestfold

The barrow cemetery at Stokke is one of the largest barrow cemeteries in Vestfold! It is located inside a birch tree forest and the forest have recently been cultivated making the barrows easy to see. The site also has several information posters. The site was inside a very tight fir forest but the trees were removed back in 2001 and tree stumps are everywhere.

The cemetery consists of 14 burial monuments, 12 round barrows and 2 oval shaped barrows. The barrows are overgrown only with short grass and all of them have very clear shapes with clear ditches around the edges. The ditches are around 20-30cm deep in some places. The cemetery have been dated from 500AD to around 1000AD.

The barrows are small to medium sized. They are from 7 to 11 metres in diameter and from 0,5 to 1,5 metres in height. The oval shaped barrows are 12 to 14 metres in length, around 4-5 metres wide and around 60-80cm in height. All the barrows except one have craters in the center. The barrows don't seem to have any damage from recent times.

To get to the barrow cemetery there is a small parking lot next to the main road and from there a footpath leading into the forest and the cemetery.



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Stokke-Prestegårdsskogen submitted by kenntha88 : Site in Vestfold Norway (Vote or comment on this photo)

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