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Multi-periodSite Name: Ullandhaug Alternative Name: Jernaldergården
Country: Norway
NOTE: This site is 3.673 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Rogaland Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Stavanger
Latitude: 58.940956N Longitude: 5.693257E
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3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4	Short walk on a footpath
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1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Rogaland

The Ullandhaug iron age farm is a reconstructed settlement from the Iron age. The farm is on top of the hill called Ullandshaug with a nice view over Stavanger and Jæren. The settlement has been reconstructed on top of the original settlement and it is marked with signs and information posters. The site is open at summer for tourists with guided tours and is also possible to get the experience of how was living in an iron age environment. It is the only settlement reconstructed on top of an original site.

The site consists of three large longhouses and three burial cairns. The longhouse to the northwest is around 30 metres in length and around 5-6 metres wide. It has been parted in two larger rooms. The smallest house is around 9 metres in length and around 5 metres wide and the largest house is around 35-40 metres in length and have been divided in several rooms. From one of the houses there are two long stone fences going from the shortest side and up on the hillside, it was probably for kettle or other farm animals. The three burial cairns are from 12 to 15 metres in diameter and from 1 to 1,5 metres in height. There are also 20 smaller cairns around the site, some of them can however be clearing cairns. The farm have been dated back to the time of migration, around 400-500AD.

The area have been populated for a very long time, when the settlement was excavated it was also found artefacts from the stone age, and on top of a hill next to the farm called Limahaugen is also a burial cairn, dated back to the older bronze age period, from around 1500BC. Today the cairn is almost destroyed but it reveals that the area was also populated at the bronze age.
In the location of the second largest house were originally constructed two round barrows that were dated back from the viking age, around 800AD, and must have been built at site after the farmhouse was destroyed. They have now been reconstructed and replaced on a small outcrop located west from the house.

In the middle of the 500s the farm was burned down and abandoned. Why this happened we can only speculate! When the farm was excavated there was also found a lot of burned wood and also a spear tip next to one of the door openings of the second largest house. Was the people killed and the farm burned down?

If you're a tourist in Stavanger or passing near by, I recommend a visit to this very interesting site.

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