<< Our Photo Pages >> Bøstad - Ancient Village or Settlement in Norway in Nordland
Submitted by kenntha88 on Saturday, 13 November 2010 Page Views: 2249
Multi-periodSite Name: Bøstad Alternative Name: BorgelvaCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 2.15 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Nordland Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Borg Nearest Village: Leknes
Latitude: 68.249922N Longitude: 13.781147E
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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Close to the well-known settlement and the longhouse site of Borg lies another, older settlement from early Iron age. This site is more or less been overlooked by the attention of the Borg museum and the large longhouse, but it is also in my opinion a very interesting site indeed!
The site consists of a circle-shaped settlement with in total of 8 house foundation sites, arranged in two semi-circular rows with four sets of housings on either row surrounding a oval open space between them, very similar with other settlement sites as for example Vollmoen, Lækkenga, Værem or Åse. This is a typical settlement for this time period. Many of these types of settlements have been dated to earlier iron age in the age of wondering.
This settlement has been dated to around 400-500AD.
The house sites can be hard to spot in the terrain, the depressions that marks the house sites does not go deep into the ground. The housings have been from about 5-8 metres in length, and from 3 to 4 metres wide.
The site also consists of two foundation marks from ancient boat houses. These sites are easy to spot and very clear in the terrain because the walls are elevating clearly from the ground, I was able to get some good pictures of the boat houses. One is about 15 metres in length and the other around 6-7 metres in length.
The site has also contained a burial cemetery with a number of round barrows, around 20 in total, but this burial cemetery has sadly been erased completely from construction of a agricultural field close to the site. The mounds have been from about 6 to 11 metres in diameter.
The site has not been made easy to access for visitors, it is no tracks leading to this site, so it can be hard to find, you also have to cross a smaller river to get there from Borg. The entrance area of the Borg museum has been built to resemble this settlement.
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