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<< Our Photo Pages >> Røttingsnes - Barrow Cemetery in Norway in Møre og Romsdal

Submitted by kenntha88 on Sunday, 19 October 2014  Page Views: 1134

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Røttingsnes
Country: Norway
NOTE: This site is 13.581 km away from the location you searched for.

Fylke: Møre og Romsdal Type: Barrow Cemetery
 Nearest Village: Sunndalsøra
Latitude: 62.891219N  Longitude: 8.338462E
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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2 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
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4 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
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Røttingsnes submitted by kenntha88 : Site in Møre og Romsdal Norway (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery in Møre og Romsdal

The barrow cemetery at Røttingsnes is the largest iron age barrow cemetery known in Tingvoll. Only parts of the cemetery is preserved. Much of the graves were removed by plowing or other farm activities from the 1800s to early 1900s. The barrow cemetery extends along a rocky ridge oriented north-west to south-east at the edge of the cultivated land, towards the tip of the cape.

The barrows are mostly barrow cairns, but both round, elongated and oval shaped cairns are present here. 14 cairns are visible today though they are overgrown with grass, trees and smaller vegetation. Several of the cairns have huge craters in them.

In 1910 several of the barrow cairns was excavated and findings were made in one elongated barrow and a small round cairn:
The long cairn had a diameter of 9x4 metres. Here were found the remains of a boat burial, but only rivets and fittings from the stern was preserved. The boat had been about 5 m long. The deceased was a woman and was located in the northern part of the boat, but the skeleton was rotted away. The woman was buried wearing a suit / dress with two oval buckles of bronze, a pearl necklace and gold plated jewellery fittings. In his belt hung a bronze key. As travel equipment, the dead have realized linhekle, iron scissors, spinning wheels, frying pan, cookware, knives and fire flint. The burial is from the Viking era, from the early 800s.
The buckle that had adorned the dress of the dead woman, are probably coming from the continent. Probably it was part of a holy book, perhaps a Bible. It is probably converted to jewellery after it came to Norway.

Close by the long barrow was a small cairn with a diameter of 5 m. This cairn is removed today. Here it was found boat rivets after a boat burial from the Viking Age. The deceased was a man, and it was among other objects found the remains of a sword in wood necklace, one shield boss, belt buckle, one sickle, a possible awl, a gem of brown stones, three pieces of flint and iron fittings of an unknown function. Probably pieces belonged to the boat that had been completely dissolved, only rivets and nails were left. The boat has probably been 3-4 metres long. It was also found traces of an additional iron cases, but these were so damaged that they could not be determined closer. The rest of the 8 barrow that was excavated had no findings.

The rest of the barrows are around 5-10 metres in diameter and around 0,5 to 1,5 metres in height. Some of them have large craters in them and most of them are overgrown with vegetation.
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Røttingsnes submitted by kenntha88 : Site in Møre og Romsdal Norway (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Røttingsnes submitted by kenntha88 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Røttingsnes submitted by kenntha88 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Røttingsnes
Røttingsnes submitted by kenntha88 : This cairn is visible mostly as a big crater.

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