<< Our Photo Pages >> Ulvsvåg sacrificial stone - Carving in Norway
Submitted by kenntha88 on Thursday, 22 November 2007 Page Views: 3841
Multi-periodSite Name: Ulvsvåg sacrificial stoneCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 11.657 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Narvik Nearest Village: Bognes
Latitude: 68.129948N Longitude: 15.892239E
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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It is located inside a private garden, and when I asked the owner of the house for permission to photograph it, he was not aware of the stones value as a historical monument before I told him.
It is a cube-shaped boulder with flat sides, one of them is turned up and forms a flat surface upwards, like a table. It has a carving of a huge square on the top, about 50cm across, with smaller lines in each corner crossing the larger square. In the centre of the large square, there is a large circular carving like a bowl.
There are known three separate stones of this type from Norway, but the other two have been lost.
This stone's original function or what culture or dating is unknown. Does anyone have an idea/theory?
Note: Nordland county
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