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Submitted by kenntha88 on Sunday, 09 December 2007 Page Views: 3513

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Alvestad, Grytøya Alternative Name: Alvestad
Country: Norway
NOTE: This site is 3.23 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Troms Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Harstad
Latitude: 68.897033N Longitude: 16.639481E
Condition:

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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

3 Ambience:

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3	Ordinary
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1	Awful
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4 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
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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
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**Alvestad, Grytøya** submitted by kenntha88 : A small burial mound, about 4 metres across. (Vote or comment on this photo)

This site is actually two sites, both of them barrow cemetaries. The first one located on a long hill overlooking some farms lower down at the sea. It has about 10 smaller burial mounds, about 4-6 metres in diametre, but with a pretty shape in a grass meadow that makes them easy to photograph.

The second barrow cemetary is down at the sea on two smaller peninsulas. It is one of the largest barrow cemetaries from northern Norway. It has about 80-100 smaller to medium sized burial cairns! most of them are damaged, some rocks have been used to make stone fences in modern age, and some are overgrown with grass or brush, but most of them are easy visible.

They vary from 3 metres, up to 10 metres across. The whole area is so "packed" with burial cairns that it is almost impossible not so notice them if you are walking in this area!

It is a interesting area, and the high number of burials suggest this area to be well-populated in the iron age.
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