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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: MunkevollenCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 1.415 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Hordaland Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Bergen Nearest Village: Nesttun
Latitude: 60.270872N Longitude: 5.327686E
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 |
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Stone Circle in Hordaland
This stone circle consists of around 30-40 blocks of stones placed in a circle and tight together tuching each other. The stones are only around 30cm in height and around 50-60 to 1,2 metres wide and vary a lot in size. Some parts of the circle is filled over with earth and soil and are not visible. The stone circle is around 17 metres in diameter.
The stone circle have a large stone slab in the center. It is around 2 metres long and 1 metre wide and is laying on a small "frame" of smaller round stones. The circle was excavated and only charcoal was found under the slab. The stone circle is dated to around 50AD, around early roman iron age. No burial was found so it is uncertain what kind of function the circle had.
The circle is on the grounds of a open air museum and a footpath goes straight trough the circle. It also have a information poster.
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