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Situated close to the road, a few hundred meters after the church if one arrives from the north (road no 118, Sarpsborgveien).
Two stonecircles (13 stones each), about 2000 years old according to the informationboard. Both restored in 1938.
Supposedly there have been a temple (hov) dedicated to the god Tor and a sacred grove here. Used as a meeting- and dancingsite up till 50-60 years ago.
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From the south, drive through the center of Steinkjer (E6) and the sign to Egge will soon show up.
Egge is an area with several burial remains (33 in all) spread along the ridge (Eggevammen). Mainly mounds, 6 of them wide (diameter 18-29 m.), and low stonecircles.
In the nearby cemetery stand a 2 meter high standing stone.
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Take road 762 towards Ogndal from the center of Steinkjer, after about 2,5 km follow the sign to Gravfelt 1,5 km. The site is located in a residental area, but has enough space.
There are 2 large standing stones, each about 5 meters tall.
There is also a stonecircle with a center stone. And some large burial mounds.
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Placed in the garden of the Tingvoll Park Hotell in Steinkjer the remains of this stone shipsetting consists of 38 stones (of originally probably 45).
It's 9 meters at the widest, and must originally have been about 40 meters long.
The area once sported other stone circles, 3 standing stones and several burialmounds according to a map drawn in 1816 by L.D. Klüwer (published in Klüwers Norsk mindesmerker 1823)
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The site at Istrehågan (Jåberg, Tjølling in Larvik municipality) contains two shipshaped stonesettings and three stonerings. The stonesettings have been dated to 400–600 c.e.
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Tjølling in Larvik has several prehistoric sites. On road 303 between Larvik and Sandefjord, about 500 meters after the takeoff to Ula, on the north side of the road some 50-100 meters out in an open field stands Hasle-steinen (i.e. The Hasle Stone). About 4,8 meter above ground it is one of the larger standing stones in Norway.
Placed at the highest point in a terrain that slopes towards Indre Viksfjord in the southwest and towards Hemskilen and the Istre-Syrist river in the north-east. The placement a few meters north of the absolute top can be explained by the fact that when the sealevel was higher (about 5 meters 500CE), the wind and waves on the the Viksfjord-side saved a bigger accumulation of matter to the south of the stone.
If the stone was raised as early as 200-400 BCE, there was a narrow isthmus, from the stone it was 50 meters to the beach of Hemskilen and about 150 meters to the sea at Viksfjord. It has been suggested that the stone was raised as a sign that boats could be dragged over land there.
A local tradition links the stone to the first Vestfold king, Halfdan Kvitbein (or Hvitbein, i.e. Halvdan Whitebone), that may have lived up to the mid-700. According to Snorre Sturlasson he was buried ("hauglagt") in Skiringssal at Skjæreid. That the eid (i.e. isthmus) in Skjæreid is the same istmus were the stone stands is unlikely.
There have been several burialsites close by, even another standing stone (that was moved and parts of it used as a bridge over a brook on the farm). 10 to 15 meters from the stone, N. Nicolaysen found in the 1860-ies, a large flat stone that the local farmer called the giants grave. This may be one of the two flat stones that a later farmer, Hans A. Hasle, found when digging in may 1913, close to the standing stone. These flat stones was placed upon smaller stones, and there was a circle of smaller stones around (diameter 3 meter).
Doctor Arent Augestad, wrote down a story in 1903 that he had heard from an 80 year old woman of Hasle farm. She had heard it in her youth from an old woman (probably Sibille Eriksdatter, that died in 1847). Sibille once came from town with her child and heard noices in the wood, she thought it was her husband trying to scare her. They were both young and she was not scared. Then a large darkclad man runs towards the stone. Around the stone were many people, and the man flew into the crowd and caused great alarm, and then everything was gone. Sibilly still wasn't scared, but when she came home it took a long time before the could tell anyone what she had seen - wrote doctor Augestad. (Source: Tjølling bygdebok, 1974, vol. 1 p. 131)
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If you come from the south on E6, take road no 110 (Oldtidsveien) towards Fredrikstad.
From the north drive over Glomma at Sarpsborg, take road no 111 towards Fredrikstad, after a few hundred meters take the road (to the left) to Borge church, this road meets road no 110 (Oldtidsveien) after a few kilometers (at Borge school), take to the left again and you'll soon be there. There are two parking lots, the rings are closest to the second.
There are 3 areas of interest at Hunn. The stonerings are in the southern area. This is the english text from the information-board:
On the slope in front of you, you see one of the biggest and most magnificient clusters of stone rings in Norway. There are in all nine big rings of upright stones. Moreover, there are a number of burial cairns and circular cromlechs. Each ring consists of 12, 13 or 15 stones. In earlier times it was assumed that trials had been held in such sites, the defendant standing in the middle, and the judges seated around, one on each stone. Archeological research, however, has proved the ring sites to be burialgrounds, probably from the Pre-Roman Iron Age (500 BC - AD). Apart from some charcoal and burned bones, nothing has been found in the rings, which clearly identifies them as fire graves, where the deceased had got elaborately shaped monuments - instead of equipment and gifts in their graves...
The norwegian infoboard elaborates a bit. Some of the rings and cairns were excavated in 1950-53, and several fallen stones were raised. The stones in the rings were connected with packed stones. In the centre of some the rings were found a large flat stone or a "package" of stones. (C-14-datings of charcoal from a similar stonering in the middle site at Hunn dates it prior to, or between 520-280 BC.) The cairns seems to be younger, six stone-pearls and two bronze-buckles dated viking-age (800-1050) were found in two of them. In the 1970-ies a few rockcarvings were found in the wood to the east close to this site. Locally this site is known as tinget.
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Male, born in 1956, lives on this island in Vestfold county in Norway.
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