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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Søndre Fange HellekisteCountry: Norway
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Fylke: Østfold Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Village: Aremark
Latitude: 59.284737N Longitude: 11.676493E
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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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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Of the passage grave, the two long sides and one of the short sides are preserved. Only one capstone is still remaining. The passage grave is located on a small hill around 10 metres in diameter and around 2 metres in height.
The remaining cover slab is 1,3 metres in length, 55cm wide and 20cm thick. It is in the eastern corner. Each of the longer sides consists of three standing slabs. The slabs on the North west long sides measure 0,6x0,35x0,25m, 0,55x0,15x0,12m, 0,64x1x0,2m and 0,6x0,6x0,2m.
The slabs making up the south east long side measure 0,55x0,35x0,15m, 0,47x0,65x0,14m, 0,55x0,95x0,18m and 0,52x 0,68x0,13m.
The slab that makes up the north-eastern shorter side has cracked in two parts. It has the measures 0,57x0,85x0,14m. In the middle of the South east long side is a smaller slab just outside the larger ones, it measures 0,45x0,3x0,1m.
In the east corner outside the grave is a smaller slab that measures 0,3x0,25x0,8m. Behind the North west long side are two more smaller slabs that measures 0,3x0,5x0,09m and 0,4x0,14x0,05m. Inside the north east part of the passage grave is another flat slab laying down that measures 0,6x0,35x0,07m. Perhaps a part of some floor?
The passage grave was excavated some years back and there was found pieces of two clay pots and one preserved clay bowl. There was also a stone spinning wheel and a small collection of burned bones. Just outside the stone chamber a bowl with burned bones and also a couple of unburned bones together with some small stone tools have been found. These findings probably date from a secondary burial from the iron age, around 200AD. The main passage grave has been dated to be from younger stone age.
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