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<< Text Pages >> Olt Burial Site - Round Cairn in Romania

Submitted by mfrincu on Wednesday, 26 August 2015  Page Views: 9872

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Olt Burial Site
Country: Romania
NOTE: This site is 118.401 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Round Cairn
Nearest Town: Caracal  Nearest Village: Diosti
Latitude: 44.118278N  Longitude: 24.186917E
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 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.
3 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
2

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Round Cairn (possibly from the Bronze Age) in Romania.

There are a few round barrows (possibly from the Bronze Age) on the E70 road between the cities of Craiova and Calafat right after the Olt county line on the right hand side.
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