Vereide cemetery
The cemetery of Vereide is in the municipality of Gloppen in Vestland in Norway . Almost 200 burial mounds were registered on the burial ground , which were built from the late Bronze Age to the Iron Age . Few places in the country have the same concentration of burial mounds as the north side of Gloppefjord . The burial ground was fenced in and is pasture land.
During the construction of the E39 motorway from Sandane to Anda, excavations were carried out between 1990 and 1995. In two cases boat-shaped stone boxes and concentric stone circle fixtures were found under the hills . The burial mounds are near the former rectory on the large terrace above the church.
The barrow field today contains 12 round stone mounds. Six are large with diameters between 20 and 25 meters and two to three meters high. Three are medium-sized, between 10 and 15 meters in diameter and one to two meters high. Three are small, about five meters in diameter and 0.5 m in height. The largest burial mounds seem to be undisturbed.
There is a building stone on the burial ground . It is about 2.5 meters high, 30 cm wide and 20 cm thick and has an almost square cross-section. The surface is rough and sharp-edged.
literature
- Evy Johanne Håland: Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond Cambridge 2008 ISBN 1-84718-870-2
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Coordinates: 61 ° 48 ′ 34 " N , 6 ° 8 ′ 55" E