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Natural PlacesSite Name: Mørsvikbotn sacrificial siteCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 85.227 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Nordland Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Narvik Nearest Village: Hamarøy
Latitude: 67.702892N Longitude: 15.846062E
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 |
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Sacrificial Site in Norway. This site was not hard to find because of the details I had found in an old book of ancient Sami heritage sites, however this was perhaps the most hazardous trip I have ever had to photograph any site!
The site is an ancient Sami sacrificial site located on the top of a huge steep mountainside littered with huge rocks and boulders once fallen out of the cliff side further up. The mountainside was really dangerous, many large loose rocks, deep cracks between them and the slippery stone surface made this trip dangerous.
The site is on top of these rocks and once youre up, its a awesome wiew of the Mørsvikbotn fjord and the mountains around it.
Once up, you notice a huge flat triangle-shaped shard boulder standing out of the cliff and looks quite impressive. Behind this rock there is a crack between it and the mountainside, and in this small space, the sacrificed animals were placed. The crack is still today filled with houndreds of bones of sacrificed animals! And the site today seem totally untouched, maybe because of the difficult terrain.
When I went down I actually had to bend down a small fir tree and lower myself down using it as a ladder, visitors is adviced to be extremly careful in this terrain.
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