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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: BråtanCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 3.128 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Østfold Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Rygge
Latitude: 59.365109N Longitude: 10.815268E
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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This barrow cemetery consists of 35 round barrows and cairns and one three-pointed stone setting. The barrows are spread around on a large forest covered hill overlooking the agricultural landscape to the south and a lake to the north. The site is sadly covered with tight forest with large pine trees and smaller birch trees. The barrows are easy to find when I went there, but because of the vegetation it was difficult to get good photographs.
Two of the barrows have a diameter of 20 metres and around 2-3 metres in height, while the rest of the barrows range in size from 5 to 15 metres in diameter. The triangle shaped stone setting is located on the highest point of the hill, the sides are around 5 metres long and the corners are marked with larger stones. It has a small cairn in the middle. The stone setting is very overgrown with grass and brush and is difficult to find. The easyest cairn to find is very close to a house and is located at the edge of the site. It is around 18 metres in diameter and around 1 metre in height. Some of the round barrows is said to have clear circles of stones around their edges.
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