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Submitted by kenntha88 on Friday, 16 November 2007 Page Views: 2517

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kongsrøysa Alternative Name: The king`s cairn
Country: Norway
NOTE: This site is 7.73 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Leknes
Latitude: 68.109524N Longitude: 13.675919E
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 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

5 Access:

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.

no data Accuracy:

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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**Kongsrøysa** submitted by kenntha88 : The cairn is high up with a beautiful wiew over the ocean the the Vestfjord. The mountains in the background is the mainland. This is probably the site I have visited with the most beautiful, undisturbed and most natural condition and landscape and nature. (Vote or comment on this photo)

This burial cairn is beautiful! it is a huge burial cairn (about 30 meters across) and it is in a beautiful landscape with a magnificent wiew! It is high up on a ridge between two mountains and you can see very far over the Islands and mountains and over the north sea to the west, and across the Vestfjord to the mainland on the other side.

It is called the king's cairn, but a excavation found the bones of a young woman, about 18-20 years old. It must have been a person of conciderable importance due to the location and size of the cairn.

It has also been speculations that this was a place of rituals and also have a mythical importance, because of the location and directly north of the cairn is a stone shaped as an altar.

As to if this has any importance, I should not speculate...

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