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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Røldal Alternative Name: SemCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 6.477 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Hordaland Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Odda Nearest Village: Røldal
Latitude: 59.829206N Longitude: 6.813927E
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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Barrow Cemetery in Hordaland
This large barrow cemetery is located on both sides of a camping place for tourists and also two large parts of it is inside two small forests, one to the west and the other to the east and the camping place in the middle. The part of the cemetery that has been marked for visitors are in the east part with a fence around it and a information poster. The site is also marked with posters on the main highway going trough Røldal.
Today there are 34 burial cairns but it has once been many more but some have been destroyed and removed by later activities. The area inside the forest have been cleared of any small trees and some of the cairns have been restored to be easier to see. Parts of the cemetery was excavated and the cairns mostly contained burned bones and charcoal. The site is believed to be from the older iron age.
The part of the barrow cemetery inside the fenced area consists of 15 round burial cairns and three elongated cairns. One of the prettiest barrows is a long barrow around 18 metres in length, around 4 metres wide and 2 metres in height. The three largest cairns are around 18 metres in diameter and 0,5 to 2,5 metres in height. One of these cairns have been heavily destroyed and only the bottom part is visible. The other cairns are from 8 to 14 metres in diameter and from 0,5 to 2 metres in height. Some of the cairns are overgrown with short grass and moss and looks more like round barrows.
A small standing stone is located in the overgrown part of the cemetery, it is called "Laksheller steinen." it is 1 metre in height and 20X10 metres wide. This stone is heavily overgrown and very difficult to find. When I was visiting this site it was very dim light and some of the photos may not be very clear.
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