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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Spellemannshaugen Alternative Name: KjellervendaCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 3.286 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Vestfold Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Horten
Latitude: 59.379552N Longitude: 10.466924E
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 |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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CharcoalBurner89 visited on 18th Aug 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Luckily managed to get to the tumulus during the Midgardsblot festival as the farmer had just harvested the field. Stands apart from the larger burial ground and is also of considerable size.
This beautiful round barrow is very close to the well known barrow cemetery at Borre but I put this in a separate site category since it is some distance away and have a slightly different history than the others at Borre.
The barrow is in the middle of a grassy field and visible from far away. It is covered only with grass and some larger trees. It was once a shed on top but this has been removed in later years but making the top seem a bit flattened. The barrow is 30 metres in diameter and around 3 metres in height.
The name "Spellemannshaugen" means "the fiddlers barrow" since people in the old days thought they heard violin music coming from the barrow in the late evenings and nights and this was according to some sources the reason why it was not made a part of the Borre park.
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