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Submitted by kenntha88 on Monday, 03 November 2014  Page Views: 2656

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Søndre Fange Hellekiste
Country: Norway
NOTE: This site is 97.621 km away from the location you searched for.

Fylke: Østfold Type: Passage Grave
 Nearest Village: Aremark
Latitude: 59.284737N  Longitude: 11.676493E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Søndre Fange Hellekiste
Søndre Fange Hellekiste submitted by kenntha88 : Site in Østfold Norway (Vote or comment on this photo)
This passage grave is located in a private garden of a nearby farm house. The grave is on a small hill with a beautiful view over the huge lake to the west. The grave is surrounded only by short lawn grass. The local farm owners were really nice and let me take some photos of the grave. There is very few passage graves found in Norway, they appear more frequently in Sweden.

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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Søndre Fange Hellekiste
Søndre Fange Hellekiste submitted by kenntha88 : Site in Østfold Norway (Vote or comment on this photo)

Søndre Fange Hellekiste
Søndre Fange Hellekiste submitted by kenntha88 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Søndre Fange Hellekiste
Søndre Fange Hellekiste submitted by kenntha88 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Søndre Fange Hellekiste
Søndre Fange Hellekiste submitted by kenntha88 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Søndre Fange Hellekiste
Søndre Fange Hellekiste submitted by kenntha88 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Søndre Fange Hellekiste
Søndre Fange Hellekiste submitted by kenntha88

Søndre Fange Hellekiste
Søndre Fange Hellekiste submitted by kenntha88

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