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<< Our Photo Pages >> The Troll's Arrow - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Norway in Møre og Romsdal

Submitted by kenntha88 on Monday, 10 August 2009  Page Views: 3992

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Troll's Arrow Alternative Name: Bolsøya
Country: Norway
NOTE: This site is 9.46 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:
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
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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
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The Troll's Arrow submitted by kenntha88 : Site in Norway: (Vote or comment on this photo)
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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