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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: HÃ¥kon's Mound Alternative Name: SeimCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 9.601 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Hordaland Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Bergen Nearest Village: Lindås
Latitude: 60.616001N Longitude: 5.278480E
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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Round Barrow(s) in Hordaland
This huge and very pretty round mound is called HÃ¥konshaugen because the legend say King HÃ¥kon the good is buried here. This is highly speculative and cannot be proved, however the barrow is a very pretty example of a large round iron age barrow.
The mound is located on a grassy hillside with a very beautiful view over the fjord and the nearby islands. The terrain is steep and the tomb almost appear to have been built into the hillside.
It is around 35 metres wide and around 3-4 metres high. It has a very beautiful rounded shape! The grass growing around the barrow and the grass on top is regularly beeing cut short, making the mound very easy to see and to photograph!
When I visited this site it was raining heavily and it was very windy, I was soaked after 2 minutes of beeing out of my car!
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