<< Our Photo Pages >> Borrehaugene - Barrow Cemetery in Norway in Vestfold
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: BorrehaugeneCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 3.684 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Vestfold Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Horten Nearest Village: Borre
Latitude: 59.382856N Longitude: 10.472417E
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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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 |
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CharcoalBurner89 visited on 17th Aug 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Great burial ground with very large tumuli from the Iron Age to the Viking Age. I definitely recommend a visit to everyone.
AnetteViking have visited here
It has been nicknamed as the cemetery for the ancient pagan kings of Norway. Today, the whole area has been made into a park and can easily be visited and photographed, except from one mound called "spellemannshaugen" or "the fiddlers mound". It has been called the fiddlers mound because some people said they could hear music coming from the mound in late summer evenings. This mound is in a wheat field about 100 metres away from the rest of the cemetery.
At least two mounds and one cairn have been destroyed in modern times. There are also 25 smaller cairns and the cemetery may have been larger. Some of the monuments are over 45m in diameter and up to 7m high. Borrehaugene provides important historical knowledge and can be seen as evidence that there was a local power centre from the Merovingian period to the Viking age.
The first investigations of the cemetery took place in 1852. Local road-builders used one of the mounds as a gravel-pit and in the process destroyed large parts of a richly equipped grave in a Viking ship. Antiquarian Nicolay Nicolaysen examined what was left of the mound. The grave contained weapons and riding equipment suggesting it was a man's grave. The excavations uncovered an unusually good selection of craft work, much of which is on display at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo.
This artistic craft work has become known as the Borre style and is today known for its beautiful animal and knot ornaments, which were often used for decorating harnesses. Some of the smaller cairns were investigated in 1925. They turned out to be simple cremation graves. New excavations were undertaken during 1989 to 1991, both in and around the national park.
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