<< Our Photo Pages >> Torget - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Norway in Østfold
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: TorgetCountry: Norway Fylke: Østfold Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Sarpsborg
Latitude: 59.293702N Longitude: 11.035211E
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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Not far away from the huge barrow cemetery at Opstad is a smaller barrow cemetery with some smaller barrows and a standing stone. The only monument I could find was the standing stone, the area is overgrown with larger trees and smaller brush and very tight vegetation, making the barrows almost invisible.
The barrows consists of four round and one triangular shaped barrow. They are from 8 to 10 metres in diameter but only around 50cm in height. The standing stones is believed to maybe belong to a long row of standing stones stretching from the four standing stones at the Opstad barrow cemetery and all the way westwards to the farm Visterflo.
The standing stone 1,3 metres in height, 70cm wide and 10cm thick. It narrows towards the top and ends in a sharp point, making the stone have an almost triangle shape.
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393m SSW 212° Visterflo Standing Stone Row* Stone Row / Alignment
489m ESE 114° Opstad barrow cemetery* Barrow Cemetery
527m SE 124° Opstadveien South* Round Barrow(s)
589m E 80° Opstadveien Ratoppen* Stone Circle
1.5km E 92° Villhageveien* Round Barrow(s)
1.5km NNE 22° Sandtangen* Barrow Cemetery
1.7km E 93° Tingstad Steinring* Stone Circle
1.8km E 92° Grålum* Round Barrow(s)
1.9km E 90° Tuneveien* Barrow Cemetery
2.2km E 88° Tune barrow cemetery* Stone Circle
2.3km E 88° Tingvollheimen* Barrow Cemetery
2.4km SW 228° Båthaugen Tuneskipet* Round Barrow(s)
2.5km NNE 14° Kalnes* Carving
2.9km E 94° Tune Runestone* Carving
3.1km ENE 67° Steinrødodden* Hillfort
3.1km E 92° Trompeterhøyden* Barrow Cemetery
3.7km W 262° Hødal Hillfort* Hillfort
4.0km SE 131° Utsikten-Alvim* Rock Art
4.5km ESE 108° Kulåsparken* Barrow Cemetery
4.8km NW 325° Sandbakken* Standing Stone (Menhir)
5.4km ENE 70° Herresal Bygdeborgen* Hillfort
5.4km SE 140° Årumsåsen* Rock Art
5.5km ENE 72° Jomfrusal Bygdeborgen* Hillfort
5.7km S 179° Lilleborge* Rock Art
5.8km SSW 203° Myråsveien* Rock Art
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