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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: BesseberghaugenCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 1.218 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Buskerud Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Drammen Nearest Village: Vestfossen
Latitude: 59.724976N Longitude: 9.878646E
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 have once consisted of 7 round barrows, one long barrow, one triangular stone setting and one square stone setting. Most of the barrows have been damaged to some degree, some have deep ditches dug into them that have later been filled in with stones and some have flattened tops. Most barrows can be hard to make out in the terrain. Most of the cemetery is overgrown with trees and vegetation and ony a few are clearly visible.
One of the round barrows, 12 metre in diameter and 0,7 metres in height in the North part of the cemetery have a clear stone row around it. This is the largest barrow in the cemetery. The other barrows are smaller, from 6 to 10 metres in diameter and 0,5 to 1 metre in height. The long barrow is in the middle of the cemetery, It is 14 metres long, 6m wide and 1 metre in height. A high voltage electricity pole have been buildt into the edge of the barrow.
The triangle shaped stone setting is not visible, only one stone can be seen but the rest is overgrown. according to kulturminnesøk the three sides are 10 metres long.
The square shaped stone setting is located in the NNW part. Only 3 stones in a line is visible. The row is around 2,5 metres long.
All in all the the damage to the cemetery and the vegetation makes the cemetery very difficult to observe. It is easiest to see on a LIDAR image.
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