<< Our Photo Pages >> Skafsås kirke - Standing Stones in Norway in Telemark
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Skafsås kirkeCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 16.627 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Telemark Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Village: Kvitseid
Latitude: 59.408307N Longitude: 8.013975E
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 |
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| 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 |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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The stone standing outside the churchyard is around 1,3 metres in height, around 40cm wide at the base and around 10cm thick. It has a hole drilled trough it and have been used as a "gapestokk" or pillar for chaining up criminals people in public view for shaming in the medieval to late 1800s when this form of punishment was normal but the stone itself is said to be from a iron age cemetery located here before the church was built. The stone is 1 metre away from the stone wall and next to the entrance.
The stone laying down inside the churchyard stone wall is around 4-5 metres long and about 1 metre wide. It has a rectangular cross section and is also said to have been from a earlier barrow cemetery.
There is also a "steinmerr" or stone horse inside the church wall. The stone is also said to have been a medieval punishment tool tho it is not known if this also is the remains of an earlier standing stone.
Inside the church is the Skafsås runestone. It was found here during the 1700s and was for decades located standing inside the churchyard but today the stone is inside the church itself to protect it from the elements. The church was closed when I visited, I hopefully will return with a article about the runestone.
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