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Submitted by kenntha88 on Monday, 14 November 2022 Page Views: 778
Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Sandvin Standing StoneCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 11.596 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:
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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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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