Baldershagen cemetery
The cemetery of Baldershagen (also called Husabø) is located in Leikanger ( Sogndal municipality ) on the Sognefjord in the Vestland Fylke in Norway . The burial ground used to have many building stones , burial mounds , roes and flat graves. Today only three small building stones and two larger long loops remain.
The archaeologists discovered in the early 1990s in the area seven tombs and several fallen stones. Two of the burial mounds , which were probably part of a larger burial field, have been reconstructed. They are rectangular and about 0.5 meters high, they are 20.0 to 25.0 meters long and about 10.0 meters wide. The others were nearby. The finds consisted of a bronze buckle , glass, gold and ceramics. All burials were dated between 500 BC. And dated 1000 AD. They were built throughout the Iron Age . The burial ground was in use for about 1500 years.
Three of the building stones were placed on one of the loops (not in the original location). Two of them are about 1.0 meters and one is 1.1 meters high, they are about 50 cm wide and 10 to 15 cm thick.
The Balderstein is 100 meters north . The building stones of Hamre and Nybø are nearby .
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Coordinates: 61 ° 11 ′ 5.7 ″ N , 6 ° 48 ′ 18.7 ″ E