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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: DømmesmoenCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 3.037 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Aust-Agder Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Grimstad
Latitude: 58.355439N Longitude: 8.576556E
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 |
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This large barrow cemetery consits of 43 round barrows, one three-pointed stone setting with one stone in each of the three corners and two in the middle, two smaller stone circles where the stones have toppled over, and I counted at least 10 single standing stones. In total there are around 60 burials.
The single standing stones are as follow (as I walked trough the cemetery), the first is around 1 metre high and around 30X30cm wide. It is standing on the top of a round barrow. The second is around 40cm high and around 20X30cm wide. The third is around 1,5 metre in height and around 20X30 wide at the base, it ends in a point. The fourth is around 1,6 metres high, around 1,55 metres wide and arond 20cm thick. It looks like a standing slab. It is oriented on a line with the two stones in the centre of the triangular stone setting and the North East corner stone. A small stone (the fifth stone) is standing 2 metres away from number four, it is unclear however if these two stones are a part of the same burial monument. The smaller stone is around 40cm high and around 20X20cm wide. The sixth stone is around 60cm high, around 30cm wide and around 10cm thick. It has a rounded top. The seventh and eight stones are standing just 2 metres away, making it probable they were once a part of the same burial. They are both around 40-50cm in height and around 20cm wide. The last stone is around 1,5 metres in height, around 80cm wide and around 50cm thick. It has a oval or rounded cross section and is standing at the edge of the cemetery.
Some of the smaller standing stones are described in earlyer documents as beeing parts of stone circle burial monuments where most of the other stones have been removed or fallen over, beeing covered in earth and grass. There is very difficult to destinguish which stones might have been belonging to these previously described stone circles.
Of the 43 barrows, two of them are elongated long barrows while the rest of the round barrows are round in shape. They vary in size from around 12 metres in diameter to around 4 metres. And from around 0,5 metres in height to around 1,5 metres. Some of the barrow have clear ditches around the edges and some of them have very pretty rounded tops. Some of the barrow have been restored in later years, but some of the barrows have been damaged in later years and some have been flattened.
The most noticable burial monument in the cemetery is the triangular stone setting. Each of the distance between the stones are equal, making it a triangle with each side 14 metres long. The corner stones are around 1,2 to 1,5 metres in height, around 60-70cm wide and around 20-30 thick. They have rounded tops. The two center stones are around 1,6 metres in height, sligthly taller than the cornerstones. They are around 80-70cm wide and around 30cm thick. They appear almost similar in size and the distance between them are only around 30-40cm. The triangular setting is very similar to the site "the five foolish virgins" at Karmøy Rogaland. The setting was excavated in 1950. It was found pieces of ceramics, a bronze plate, a needle and some burned bones.
The site is very easy to observe, there are signposts, a parking lot nearby and small footpaths leads trough the site. It is almost only short cut grass and some large trees spread around the site.
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