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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sparbu barrows Alternative Name: HauanCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 1.425 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Nord-Trøndelag Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Steinkjer Nearest Village: Sparbu
Latitude: 63.922993N Longitude: 11.463708E
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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High on a hilltop and with a beautiful view over Trondheimsfjord and just south of a elderly home is a small iron age barrow cemetery.
The cemetery contains at least 13 burial monuments, (6 round barrows, 4 elongated barrows and 3 uncertain.) All the barrows are close together in a group with the largest round barrow highest up on the hill and furthest to the south-east. The largest barrow is a beautiful monumental round barrow. It is 30 metres in diameter and around 5 metres in height and visible for a long distance away.
The second largest barrow is around 20 metres in diameter and around 4 metres high. It is just to the north west of the largest barrow. The rest of the round barrows are from 6 to 30 metres in diameter and from 0,5 to 5 metres in height. The elongated barrows are from 8 to 11 metres in length and from 6 to 8 metres wide.
The cemetery is heavily overgrown with large and smaller trees and the smaller burial monuments can be very difficult to see in the right vegetation. The largest barrows are easy to see even heavily overgrown. Photographing this site should probably be done in late autumn or winter when the trees have less leaves.
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