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Hard to believe, but this is a labyrinth. Parts of it is marked with flour.
The position of this rare thing is not accurate, and I´m not sure that I would find it again. But I took part in a guided tour in 2010, and it is in there somewhere.
The Einang-stone is 1,47 m high, 1,05 wide and between 13 – 18 cm thick. The rune-inscription dates from ca 300 CE: “[Ek go]ðagastir runo faihido” or “I Gudgjest wrote the runes”.
The stone is very brittle and stands under a roof and behind glass-walls to keep it safe.
View from Gardberg. Fog in the valley below.
Remains of a burialmound at Gardberg.
Gardberg is an area covering more than 2 square kilometers in the municipality of Vestre Slidre in Valdres. Follow the signs to Einangsteinen from road E16.
550 of a proposed thousand burial mounds has been investigated. More than 900 finds date from Roman iron-age up towards viking-age 800 CE. The area has traces of iron-production before, under and after viking-age.
There is a stone with 70 saucerlike hollows.
The famous Einang-runestone is also here.
One of the 4 large standing stones.
A stone circle with 4 stones left standing. Height about 2 m.
“Gunnarstorprøysa” in march-snow.
“Gunnarstorprøysa”. A large (diameter 30 m., height 3 m) bronze-age burial-cairn.
The Directorate for Cultural Heritage in Norway (Riksantikvaren) database for cultural remains. This is a work in progress. The interface is only in norwegian.
I recommend the possibility to restrict searches based on geographical criteria. «Fylke» has a list of counties. «Kommune» = municipalities. It is also possible to restrict a search to ages, «Steinalder – bronsealder» = stoneage – bronzeage.
Sideview of second standing stone.
The second standing stone.
Standingstone #1 from the side.
Lone standing stone at Blomsholm.
The altarstone left in the photo.
The stonering at Blomsholm.
Across the road from the shipsetting there are a stonecircle (one altarstone in the middle and nine in the circle itself) diameter 36 m. Its called a dommarring in swedish, i.e. judges ring. The stones are massive blocks.
There are several burialmounds and two standing stones close by.
Further off, still westward.
Another view westward.
Another view westward.
The ship towards west.
Eastern sternstone and 2 more.
Eastern sternstone, about 4 m high
The western sternstone and two more
Sternstone to the west, about 4 m high
Image credit: From the western stern to the east
The shipsetting
49 stones (of 51 or 52). 41 m long, 9 m wide. Endstones both about 4 m high. There are about ten graves around the stone ship, excavations have shown urns containing burned bones (dated about 400-600CE). One of Swedens largest and most magnificent stone ships. The E6-road is close and there’s a constant rumble of cars.
An english description of this search facility: raa.se/cms/fornsok/about_fornsok.html
The interface is only in swedish. «Län» and «Landskap» makes it possible to select geographical locations.
The link is a search for «Stenkrets» (i.e Stonecircle) in The Swedish National Heritage Board’s photographic database.
Single standing stone.
Single, standing stone.
2 other stones, not from the triangle.
The two stones in the middle, and one of the corner-stones.
1-3 cornerstones of the triangle.
4 two middles stones.
5 large, broad out-lier stone.
Stone on burial-mound.
One of the triangle, corner-stones.
The stone just outside the triangle.
The two stones in the middle of the triangle, and the stone just outside the triangle.
The triangle, outside stone, the two in the middle and one of the corner-stones.
The triangle.
40+ small burialmounds (dated 400-200 b.ce), several standing stones, and an impressive stonesetting: 3 stones forming a triangle, the stones are connected with flat stones lying in the ground. In the middle of the triangle stands 2 stones close to each other, and one stone outside the triangle itself.
Dømmesmoen is an educational centre connected to the university of Agder, with an impressive garden.
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