<< Our Photo Pages >> Skistad Cemetery - Barrow Cemetery in Norway in Nord-Trøndelag
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Skistad Cemetery Alternative Name: BrennmoenCountry: Norway Fylke: Nord-Trøndelag Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Trondheim Nearest Village: Grong
Latitude: 64.452877N Longitude: 12.123585E
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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On the plateau it is several huge grain fields and some tight forests is located between the fields.
This site has two separate cemeteries, when I visited the first one, I was kinda disappointed, it was inside a very tight leaf-tree forest and with lots of smaller brush, making it almost impossible to photograph the mounds, I found only two of the total of 12 said to be here.
But when I visited the other cemetery, it is just outside the edge of a large grain field, just where the hills start that leads up to the mountains in the south, I was surprised to find that the site is not covered in tight forest, but only with some scattered trees around and very low forest vegetation on top of the soil. There I could see many mounds, the next one prettier than the last!
All the mounds have very pretty shapes and seems to be undisturbed either by later diggings or plundering. They also have deep and clear ditches around the edges, making them even easyer to photograph.
I could find 3 elongated mounds and 8 round mounds, the round mounds are from 15 to 10 metres across and from 1 to 2 metres in height. The long mounds are from 8 to 12 metres in length and 0,5 to 1 metres in height. The entire are with the farmlands and the forest and mountains is beautiful.
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