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<< Our Photo Pages >> Sandvin Standing Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Norway in Hordaland

Submitted by kenntha88 on Monday, 14 November 2022  Page Views: 784

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Sandvin Standing Stone
Country: Norway
NOTE: This site is 14.384 km away from the location you searched for.

Fylke: Hordaland Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Odda  Nearest Village: Sandvin
Latitude: 60.010181N  Longitude: 6.555566E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Sandvin Standing Stone
Sandvin Standing Stone submitted by kenntha88 : Site in Hordaland Norway (Vote or comment on this photo)
Next to the driveway of a local house and inside a private garden in a small village south of Odda called Sandvin (Norway) is one of the strangest shaped standing stones I have seen! The stone is surrounded by lawn grass and a car was parked less than a metre away when I visited it. The stone is mentioned in traditional literature and was here long before any houses were present. It is uncertain if it there were other stones or barrows here previously.

The stone has as mentioned a very strange shape. The stone is very narrow at the base, around 20 x 20cm wide and thick with almost a square cross section. It has this shape around a metre up from the ground where the stone widens out upwards with angled sides to a total with of around 80 centimetres. It has a straight top. The stone almost get the shape of an upside down arrow pointing to the ground! The total height is around 1.5 metres.
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