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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Løykja Cemetery Alternative Name: HoåsCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 29.569 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Møre og Romsdal Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Molde Nearest Village: Sunndalsøra
Latitude: 62.651429N Longitude: 8.697052E
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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The site consists of about 150 round barrow mounds, they vary in size from 25 metres down to 4 metres across and from 1 to 2 metres in height. Some of them have been plundered in later years. They do not rise much from the terrain and appear lower than in many other sites.
More, the site has also several long barrows, ranging in size from about 10 to 20 metres in lenght and from 2-4 metres wide and from 0,5 to 1 metres in height.
In the middle of the cemetery is a star-shaped burial mound, the "arms" are about 6-7 metres long from the centre.
There are also some triangle-shaped mounds, they can be hard to find as they dont elevate much from the terrain. Triangle-shaped mounds are not very common from this period. Some flat-ground burials have also been found.
Some of the round barrows have a single ring of stones around the bases, and in the south part of the cemetery is a area with several graves marked with a ring of stone. They are smaller, about 2-3 metres across.
Some of the mounds have been excavated, and some have shown burned bones while others had unburned human remains. In one of the large mounds, 5 separate burials from different time periods with a total of 7 human skeletons was found, suggesting the mound have been "reused" after the original burial.
The cemetery is located on a flat surface between the main highway and the river to the south. The site is inside a beautiful leaf-tree forest with spread trees and short ground vegetation, making the mounds easy to see and photograph.
The site have been made easy for visitors to see and explore, and a visit here is highly recommendable.
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