<< Our Photo Pages >> Blåfjell sacrificial site - Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Norway in Troms
Submitted by kenntha88 on Wednesday, 28 November 2007 Page Views: 3436
Natural PlacesSite Name: Blåfjell sacrificial siteCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 9.721 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Troms Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Harstad Nearest Village: Tjeldsund
Latitude: 68.606985N Longitude: 16.787796E
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 site was hard to find! It is a long walk along the mountain from Blåfjellvatnet lake. And then across a ridge to another valley on the other side.
Once there, it was also very hard to find the site. I had to search through the forest for it, for about 2 hours until I found it! It doesn't look impressive at all, because the site is overgrown with small brush and grass. It is also in a tight forest and can be really hard to see.
The site consists of two natural shaped stone boulders with a small space (about 0.5m in width) between them. The stones are about 1 metre tall and about 2-3 metres wide.
There is a low stone ring built around the boulders, but it can be really hard to see, because it is overgrown with grass and other plants.
This place has been in use of the old Sami people up until the 17th century.
An old man I know that lives some miles away from the site warned me about going up there on a summer night, expecially the 23rd of June. He said the ground would shake and I would hear thunder!
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