<< Our Photo Pages >> Kråkneset Cairns - Cairn in Norway in Møre og Romsdal
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Kråkneset Cairns Alternative Name: KroksetCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 32.267 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Møre og Romsdal Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Molde Nearest Village: Åndalsnes
Latitude: 62.605344N Longitude: 7.126865E
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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This site consists of a number of burial cairns. When I visited this site, only the two largest were visible because of the thick forest.
The two large cairns are about 25-30 metres across and from 1 to 2 metres in height. They are massive and very impressive! They are partially overgrown with pine trees, but still they are easily visible. They both have deep craters in the top and have been dated back to the bronze age, about 3000 years ago.
The area around is very beautiful, inside a forest with smaller pine trees and if you go further down the path to the sea, there is a very nice view across the fjord.
A sign has been placed at the main road and a path leads through the forest down to the cairns.
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