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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: KnattenCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 7.022 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Buskerud Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Kongsberg
Latitude: 59.602226N Longitude: 9.665836E
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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Barrow Cemetery in Buskerud
The barrow cemetery consists of 13 round barrows. The cemetery is oriented in a semi circle from east to west along the edge of a natural plateau overlooking the river valley to the north and north east. Several barrows have been damaged by nearby houses and roads to these. Only the west part of the cemetery had a little less vegetation and the barrows here could easily be found though they are also overgrown with smaller and larger trees and moss.
The three largest barrows are 17-20 metres in diameter and 1 to 1,75 metres in height. The two largest barrows have craters dug into the top and have ditches around them. The barrows are relatively low compared to the diameter. The rest of the barrows are 6-9 metres in diameter. Between the houses there is a footpath that goes trough the west part of the cemetery. When one of the nearby houses was built it was found a flat ground burial with burned human bones but no artifacts.
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