<< Our Photo Pages >> Foss Carvings - Carving in Norway in Sør-Trøndelag
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Multi-periodSite Name: Foss Carvings Alternative Name: InnleggetCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 7.926 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Sør-Trøndelag Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Trondheim Nearest Village: Hovin
Latitude: 63.108639N Longitude: 10.250587E
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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This is one of the most interesting carving sites I have visited, mostly because of its location. Most stone carving sites I have seen have been located by the sea, but this one is far to the inland and on a high elevation forest/mountain area.
Located not far from the chieftains grave at Horg, a path have been made to show the sites to any visitor. The path have been marked carefully and improvised stairs have been made where the path leads up from the valley below and up to the sites. The location with the view of the valley below and the river is wonderful! The carvings themselves are inside a small leaf-tree forest.
The carvings have been dated back to the later part of the bronze age, about 1000-500BC. The population once living here would have been well protected due to the location and the difficulties to get up to this site.
The carvings mostly picture ships and boats and spirals called sun-spirals and some abstract geometrical figures. Sadly the site is badly eroded and some of the carvings are very hard to make out.
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