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Natural PlacesSite Name: Stødi sacrificial siteCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 212.473 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Nordland Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Bodø Nearest Village: Mo i Rana
Latitude: 66.568322N Longitude: 15.337429E
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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This same sacrificial site is located on the high-elevation mountain plains on Saltfjellet, close to the small railway station at Stødi.
It consist of three huge natural boulders located with just some few metres in space between them. One of the boulders have a broad natural crack running trough it.
Some years ago, there were still visible stone rings very close to the stones. The Sami used this site for sacrifice and religious activity as late as the 1800s. But it is difficult to know when the site was first put to use.
The boulders are easy to see from miles away doe to the lack of vegetation and the flat landscape! They are easy to see even from the highway about 1 km to the east. The site is just some few miles from the border to Sweden, it is also just some few miles from the arctic circle.
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