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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Troll's Arrow Alternative Name: BolsøyaCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 6.134 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Møre og Romsdal Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Molde
Latitude: 62.731032N Longitude: 7.328010E
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 |
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-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 |
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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 |
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This very pretty and slender standing stone is in my opinion one of the prettyest in Norway. It is about 5,5 metres tall and about 40cm wide. It has a very good location with a very nice view over the sea and the farm areas around.
It is called The Trolls Arrow because in an old tale say it was a troll living in the mountains further south that shot an arrow to try to hit the newly built church on the small Island, but it missed and the arrow went down into the ground at Bolsøya, and is since then called the Trolls Arrow.
There has been many large burial mounds around it, but most of them are now destroyed or flattened by farming.
Luckilly the standing stone survived and it's a very nice and beautiful reminder of the iron age settlement here.
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