Helge Gård burial ground
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The cemetery at Helge gård dates from the early Iron Age and is located in Byafossen near Steinkjer in Fylke Nord-Trøndelag in Norway .
Two very high building stones ( menhirs ) are striking . One has a height of over 6.0 meters and is about 50 cm wide. The other is about 5.25 meters high and slightly wider. A third platy stone is about 2.0 meters high and 1.0 meters wide. Nearby is a stone circle about 15.0 meters in diameter made up of nine large boulders and a larger stone in the middle.
Four burial mounds , three of which have a diameter of about 30.0 meters and a height of 3.0 to 4.0 meters, are overgrown with grass. The largest is called "Helgeshaugen". The second largest is called "Ormshaugen". Orm is a common male given name in the Iron Age. The hill is the only one that has not been cleared of vegetation, making it difficult to see. The other two burial mounds are about 20.0 meters wide and 2.0 to 3.0 meters high. There are a number of smaller hills that extend around or near the larger hills.
The site consists of three parts:
- Helgeshaugen, another of the large hills, the two tallest building stones and the stone circle are in the main part of the cemetery,
- Ormshaugen is about 30 meters east between private houses
- east of the main part there is a large and several smaller mounds and the short building stone.
In the Iron Age the sea reached almost as far as Helge; the burial ground was probably a small ridge between the sea and the lake. Such burials suggest that Helge was an important settlement in the Iron Age.
The Egge burial ground and the Tingvoll ship settlement are nearby .
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Coordinates: 64 ° 1 ′ 55.8 ″ N , 11 ° 32 ′ 59.3 ″ E