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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Stokke-PrestegårdsskogenCountry: Norway Fylke: Vestfold Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Tønsberg Nearest Village: Stokke
Latitude: 59.222256N Longitude: 10.319327E
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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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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