<< Our Photo Pages >> Vigstein - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Norway in Akershus
Submitted by kenntha88 on Thursday, 02 October 2014 Page Views: 1740
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: VigsteinCountry: Norway Fylke: Akershus Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Village: Nannestad
Latitude: 60.211600N Longitude: 11.075828E
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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Just next to a small residential neighbourhood close to the Gardermoen airport is a pretty standing stone. It is located in a wheat field but only around 10 metres from the road. I could not get close to the stone but photographed it from a distance.
There are some local legends connected to the stone:
A legend says that one night a long time ago, a freed slave came to the farm and asked for shelter. The farmer refused him, and chased him out the door. The servant went away, but when he came back to the farm, he turned around and called a curse upon the farmer and the farm. They would see that he could not be chased away so easily, and that it would go that bad with those trying to remove him. And the day after, the slave turned into stone and is still standing there as the standing stone.
And there it stood until sometime in the 1800s, when a landowner on Vigstein farm were in need of some foundation stones for his barn and he used Vigsteinen stone. There are several versions of what happened next. A tradition says that one or more houses burned, another that one or more of the cows died in the barn. Anyway, Vigsteinen was taken out of the foundation and put in place in the field where it has stood since.
The stone is around 1,90m in height, around 65cm wide at the base and around 22cm thick. It has a rectangular cross section with a straight cut top.
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