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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: RomskollenCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 1.94 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Akershus Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Askim
Latitude: 59.588622N Longitude: 11.109465E
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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The Romskollen hillfort is located on a large natural oval shaped hill just east of the town Askim. Several hiking footpaths and trails leads from the bottom of the hill up to the fort. To the south the hill is damaged by several stone quarries from modern times and a water reservoir is located on the top of the hill at the highest point.
The hill has steep sides to the east, west and south. The hill is less steep to the north where the defensive works can be found. It seems to be only one single wall and some "arms" leading from the main wall. The wall starts on the North-West end of the hill around 100 metres NW of the water reservoir. It is shaped as a semi circle to the east where it follows a natural rock cliff. Here it is overgrown and parts of the wall have collapset and it can be hard to see at some points. It is around 1 to 3 metres wide and 0,2 to 0,5 metres in height.
The wall then turns SSE in a length of 20 metres. 10 metres away from the turn it becomes more visible. It also follows a natural small ravine that could have workes as a natural ditch or moat. On the inside the wall is around 1 metre in height. After 20 metres the wall then bends to the ESE. At one point in a natural depression the wall is very thick. It follows a ESE direction for 18 metres to what seems to have been the entrance to the fort.
From the entrance the wall runs in a SE direction in a length of 11m. Here the wall is heavily overgrown. It then turns NE in a length of 14m, where it goes over a shelf to continue at its base, where a new semicircular projection extends diametrically on the main wall 5m (NNWSE). The main wall then runs NNW in a length of 9m. The main wall, then turns towards the N and runs in l of 25m. In this section, it forms a kind of "S" and consists partly of very coarse stone. In the N part, the slope is easy to defend, so here the wall has been strengthened with an extension on the inside, it is quite overgrown and therefore difficult to describe in more detail.
The wall then goes ENE-over in a length of 14m, then bends SE in a length of 36m. Here the wall is partly less overgrown. But at the SE end is a smaller shelf with dense vegetation and moss and here there are probably stones hidden under the vegetation. Here the wall seems to end. 25-30m SE of the end of the wall, a gorge runs in a NE-SSW direction. The NNE end ends in a steep slope
The footpath leads trough the entrance and after 10 metres there is a large information poster.
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