<< Our Photo Pages >> Kauparve röse - Cairn in Sweden in Gotland
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kauparve röseCountry: Sweden
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Landskap: Gotland Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Visby Nearest Village: Lärbro
Latitude: 57.804000N Longitude: 18.809000E
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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CarmenK visited on 20th Jun 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Bjorn have visited here
"The cairn, which was built in several stages, was about 3 metres high and 18 metres in diameter. Inside the tower-shaped inner part, which was open at the top, were found two cists, (stone coffins) with skeletons and grave-goods belonging to three individuals.
Around the tower is a wall half a metre high, which held the stones between the tower and the outer wall in place. Three Iron Age burials were found under these stones.
South of the cairn is a cist of limestone slabs.
In the Early Bronze Age (ca. 1800 - 1100 BCE), imposing burial structures of stone were erected at visible locations along the coasts and channels of communication. There are 400 such large cairns in Gotland.
Under the mounds of stones there are sometimes parts of buildings, such as walls and towers, or cists - coffins made of stone flags. Most cairns are burial places for several people. They were used over a long period.
Standing stones or a cist of limestone slabs can often be seen south of these cairns."
(Information from a sign at the site)
On road 148 drive northwards past Lärbro. After about 2 kilometres turn left into a sign-posted smaller road that leads up to the site.
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