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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Snäckedal GrävfältCountry: Sweden
NOTE: This site is 28.935 km away from the location you searched for.
Landskap: Småland Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Oskarshamn Nearest Village: Misterhult
Latitude: 57.520550N Longitude: 16.555840E
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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LeGuMa visited on 11th Jul 2013 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Nice place on the country side, a bit off the main roads. Easy to reach with a car though. Situated close to a farm.
Tonnox visited on 19th Jun 1995 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 2
regina have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 5 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 3.5
The burial ground is dated to the Bronze Age, is 110 by 100 meters wide and consists of 26 ancient relics. These consist of five barrows, two with a brim, 13 round stone circles, five rectangular stone circles and two ship-shaped rock formations. A skeppsformig stone circle (not to be confused with the stone ship) is 40 meters long and seven meters wide, and has an edge chain with two distinct stem stones where the west is 1.3 meters high. The largest mound is 21 meters in diameter and three meters high.
In the surroundings there are about 200 scattered graves, usually cairns and stone circles. Even mite piles of stones and carvings have been found. 3,000 years ago, sea level all the way up here and then was probably a significant Bronze Age settlement at the then Baltic coast.
(This information is translated from Wikipedia)
The coördinates are from the skeppsformig stone circle.
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