<< Our Photo Pages >> Todneset - Cairn in Norway in Hordaland
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Todneset Alternative Name: TysnesCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 6.737 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Hordaland Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Fitjar
Latitude: 60.050629N Longitude: 5.536894E
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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
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The rocky point called Todneset is believed to have been a important pagan ritual site. There are known several finds from this area, today the site consists of a standing stone and a cairn. The cairn was believed to be a burial cairn but revealed a sort of "altar" or "Horg".
The cairn is 20 metres in diameter and 1,5 metres in height today. It was orignally larger. In the center of the cairn is a bricked up platform made out of several flat stone slabs forming a sort of table or platform. The platform is 2,7X2,7 metres in size and around 0,5 metres in height. Around the table is a wall of larger stones, around 0,5 metres in height. Around the stone table was numerous burned animal bones and seashells. This feature is believed to be a sort of pagan altar or Horg and the cairn have been built up over the table.
The standing stone is around 3 metres in height, around 70cm wide at the base and around 20cm thick. It is narrower at the top and the top forms a point. The stone was previously in the centre of a stone circle. The stone circle was removed and the stone was moved, it was later put up again on its original location. The stone is tilting slightli to one side.
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