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<< Text Pages >> Giesener Forst Grabhügelfeld - Barrow Cemetery in Germany in Lower Saxony, Bremen

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Giesener Forst Grabhügelfeld
Country: 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:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
no data

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Artificial Mound in Lower Saxony, Bremen

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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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