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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Grunnfarnes Neolithic SettlementCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 8.455 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Troms Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Latitude: 69.306023N Longitude: 17.023444E
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 |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Troms
The Grunnfarnes stone age settlement consists of no less than 11 round and oval-shaped stone age housing remains. Today they are visible as round or oval depressions in the ground. They are from the younger stone age (around 3000-2000BC).
Some of the housings have been excavated, large amounts of flint have been found. In one of the foundation marks there is visible two dividing walls forming a cross so the round housing have been divided into four rooms.
Such well-preserved stone age settlements are rare. The low moss vegetation and spread out small trees makes them easy to recognize and photograph. Two of the housings have been lost in later years because of the sandbank they have been buildt upon have been washed away by the nearby small river.
The site is just close to a later iron age settlement, I choosed to divide them into two site pages simply because of the gap in time from when they probably were in use. Information signs have been placed on the nearby parking lot.
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