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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gansmo Gravfelt Alternative Name: NamsvollCountry: Norway Fylke: Nord-Trøndelag Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Trondheim Nearest Village: Namsos
Latitude: 64.462638N Longitude: 11.907291E
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 near Namsos in Norway. This site consists of 6 large burial mounds, about 15-18 metres in diameter, and about 2-3 metres tall and two smaller mounds, about 8-9 metres across and 0,5 to 1 metres high.
They are easy to make out as soon as you walk on top of them, but can be hard to see from a distance because they are located inside a fur forest and some smaller brush grows on top and around them. [The forest is now cleared - hooray!]
The mounds themselves appear undamaged and have a very nice shape and also have a very clear "ditch" around their edges. They lay on the edge of a natural river terrace of sand, overlooking the Namsen river. The view would have been great if it was not obscured by the forest.
The cemetery is a very good example of burial sites along the Namdalen valley, several other cemeteries with similar locations are known, suggesting the Namdalen valley had a very large population in the Iron Age.
Note: Now cleared of thick forest so it's much easier to see the barrows!
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