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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Giesener Forst GrabhügelfeldCountry: Germany
NOTE: This site is 1.836 km away from the location you searched for.
Land: Lower Saxony, Bremen Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Giesen Nearest Village: Peine
Latitude: 52.186260N Longitude: 9.898280E
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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Artificial Mound in Lower Saxony, Bremen
Positional co-ordinates scaled from a map source.
Series of 43 Bronze age to Iron age (1200 to 700 BCE) tumuli of up to 18 meters in diameter in woods 500 Meters south of town. Excavations were made between 1905 and 1919, but not much has been published from these, but there are now good signs.
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