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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: MjølstadCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 7.35 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Oppland Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Gjøvik
Latitude: 60.813076N Longitude: 10.544607E
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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The cemetery consists of 9 burials, 8 round cairns and one elongated cairn. They are all located on a rocky east-west oriented ridge or natural shelf in a large southern slope on the north side of the valley dominated by grassy hills and farmlands. The cairns would have been visible easily from the south side of the valley.
A small footpath or tracktor road leads from a local dirt road and to the cemetery. The ridge itself is covered in larger trees and is today fenced in to make a grazing ground for cows. The cairns are all covered in moss and trees and some have been built on natural rock outcrops making them larger than they actually are.
The largest cairn is 16 metres in diameter and 2 metres in height. Another two cairns are 11-12 metres across and around 1,5 metres in height. The long cairn is 16 metres long and around 6 metres wide. The rest of the barrows are smaller, around 6-8 metres in diameter and some can be hard to see. Most of the barrows have been dug out and have deep craters in them.
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