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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Targan Barrow CemeteryCountry: Kazakhstan
NOTE: This site is 6.22 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Almaty Nearest Village: Targan
Latitude: 43.321058N Longitude: 75.727929E
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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Barrow Cemetery in Kazakhstan
Real name for this site/locality not known, but it is either side of the Almaty-Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) road, 11km west of the village of Targan and about 100km west of Almaty.
A large dispersed barrow cemetery or a landscape with a huge number (100+) of barrows in. All sizes of barrows from very small 4+metres across to large 40??+metres across. The barrows are surrounded by arable fields, most have been ploughed right upto, some ploughed over and probably many barrows ploughed out.
The position given is a point on the road you can see some of the barrows from.
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