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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: AndorsrudCountry: Norway
NOTE: This site is 7.997 km away from the location you searched for.
Fylke: Buskerud Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Drammen
Latitude: 59.686971N Longitude: 10.115535E
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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The wall begins up to the north edge of a block on a precipice on the North East edge of the hill, where it follows a small shelf, where it must have been difficult, but still possible, to enter the upper plateau. The wall consists of small quarry stones and is overgrown with moss. The wall runs with the terrain on the inner edge, the outer edge is quite nicely laid out, and ends on a shelf.
The wall is oriented North West - South Eeast. 10m in length, width 1.5m, height approx. 1.2m. The wall continues on a knoll above the shelf and becomes increasingly clear and well preserved. Direction East to West. For the first 10m it blends with the terrain and is very overgrown with moss. It is around 2 metres wide here.
On the west side it is very nicely walled up and also well preserved. Here it is 7m long and 2,5 metres wide and one metre in height. The outer side drops off vertically for 2.5m. The upper 1,5 metres consists of large quarry stone, finely walled. This masonry rests on 2-3 up to 1.13 m l blocks on top of each other which lie partly across and partly lengthwise of the wall's length. At this point, the above-mentioned depression is blocked in the N-S direction with an 8m l, 13m wide barrier of large blocks which in the East side clockwise down towards the valley.
After the mentioned 7m, the main wall becomes increasingly wider and stronger and is broken 15m further W by an opening where a path runs NNW-SSSE. Wall width in the opening approx. 10.5m, outer height approx. 2.5m, inner approx. 1m. The opening is approx. 1m wide and filled with stone. Here is the castle's weakest point, and it is reasonable to assume that the entrance was here. The wall ends here in a blunt point. It is tempting to believe that the entrance originally had the shape of a geil.
From the opening and 7m to the west, the wall is approx 2m high on the outside but then flattens out with a couple of metres width. The wall then turns S-over and in the North West is a marked corner with dry masonry preserved in 1.5ms height.
Where Plateau transitions into a lower-lying part, a depression is filled with large blocks. The south end of the west wall turns east in a length of 13m. It is 2m wide consisting of partly large blocks. It then continues on the lower-lying plateau along the edge of the hill towards the water consisting of blocks but mostly small quarry stones, it is quite raked and a little overgrown with heather and moss, it is 2-4 metres wide and around 0,5 metres in height. From the south edge of the plateau in the NNW-SE direction it is 20m in length. It then turns to the E-SE, goes over a number of knolls, and ends in the East-South East towards a drop down to the water and the valley. Total length approx. 30m. The last 20m of the wall blends in with the terrain, is very overgrown, but still fairly easy to see.
From the SE corner, it follows the plateaus SE side, direction N-S, now with the same dimensions as the wall on the upper plateus W side, width 2-4.5m, outer height up to 2.25m. Roughly in the middle, it consists in the central part of a large block, 2.45x0.91x0.70m, which lies in the longitudinal direction. The wall ends at the cliff of Plateau I's SE corner. Total l about 30m.
The inner fort area on the plateau is slightly hilly, with no damp places. Scattered deciduous and coniferous trees, fairly dense heather cover, scattered boulders, rocks during the day in some places.
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