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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: MunkrødstadCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 0.547 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Nord-Trøndelag Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Trondheim Nearest Village: Levanger
Latitude: 63.730530N Longitude: 11.396369E
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 site is located on a large elongated and forest covered hill oriented east to west with the Munkrøstad farm down the hill to the west. When I visited the site I cam from the east side and there is a footpath leading west to the site for around 300 metres. The site and hill is inside a wide fence and the hill is a grazing grounds for young bulls. When I visited the bulls were coming up to me very curious as to why I was visiting!
All the barrows are only covered with short grass and some spread out birch trees, making all the burials very easy to see in the terrain.
The site consists of 22 round barrows, 4 oval shaped barrows, two cairns, 3 long barrows and one possible long house remains and one possible stone setting.
Furthest to the west is a cluster of 5 smaller barrows, they are only 5-8 metres in diameter and very low in the terrain, only around 50cm high. Further down to the west it is a group of two oval shaped barrows, one large beautiful long barrow and one cairn with a deep crater in the top. In the middle is another group of barrows and two paralell long barrows. Furthest to the west is is two beautiful large round barrows and several smaller ones, and also 2 more long barrows.
No detailed information of the size of the barrows themselves were avialable in kulturminnesøk but the two largest barrows are around 22 metres in diameter and 2,5-3 metres in height. They have both very clear ditches around their edges. One of them have a ditch dug trough it but the other seems to be undamaged.
The long barrows are impressive in size and shape, one of them is around 30 metres in length, 5 metres wide and 1,5 metres in height. They are as the round barrows very easy to photograph and spot in the terrain. Most of the medium sized barrows are 10-15 metres in diameter and 1,5 to 2 metres in height. The cairn located in the middle of the site is around 20 metres wide and 2,5 metres in height. It has a deep crater in the middle. Most of the smaller barrows also have clear ditches around them.
I was not expecting to find such a beautiful barrow cemtery when I visited the site, the site is highly recommendable to visit!
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