<< Our Photo Pages >> Frøyland-Dirdal - Ancient Village or Settlement in Norway in Rogaland
Submitted by kenntha88 on Sunday, 27 September 2020 Page Views: 251
Multi-periodSite Name: Frøyland-DirdalCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 5.647 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Rogaland Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Village: Dirdal
Latitude: 58.819725N Longitude: 6.203181E
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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Frøyland is the largest of the two settlements, it has around 150 burial cairns, ancient stone fences and one large remain of a longhouse. The site is inside a grazing ground for cows and young bulls so I wasn't able to get close to get any close up photos of the site. There is a information poster next to the road.
The house remains is around 19 metres in length and 4-5 metres wide according to the kulturminnesøk website. Some of the burial cairns are easy to see from the road in the flat landscape. Some of them are close to the local road.
The barrows are around 15 metres in diameter and 1,5 to 2 metres in height. They have very pretty shapes and doesnt seem to have been damaged. The smaller cairns are 4-7 metres in diameter and can be difficult to see. Some of them can be clearing cairns from when the area was cleared for agriculture.
A chambered tomb was excavated in 1912 and proved to be from the migration period around 500AD. it is believed this area have been settled from earliest iron age up to early medieval times.
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