Roes from Røysene

The Røysene Roots are located on the hill of the same name in Rødtangen in Asker municipality in Fylke Viken in Norway .

The roes with a view of the Drammernfjord have not been investigated, but like others in the area, they probably date from the Bronze or Early Iron Age . They have a diameter of 15 to 20 meters and heights between 2.0 and 3.0 meters. All have deep craters from robbery excavations in the middle, where stone boxes or burial chambers are visible. The roes placed on the hills can be found all along the coast from the Swedish border in the south to Finnmark in the north.

Nearby are the Rødtangen dolmen and the Holtvedtryggen stone circle.

literature

• Einar Østmo: Towards a border - Traces of megalithic ritual in the Fjord Country. In: Sophie Bergerbrant, Serena Sabatini (ed.): Counterpoint. Essays in Archeology and Heritage in Honor of Professor Kristian Kristiansen. Archaeopress, Oxford 2013, ISBN 978-1-4073-1126-5 , pp. 301-308.

Web links

• Description at Riksantikvaren (Norwegian)
• Description Engl. and picture

Coordinates: 59 ° 32 ′ 12 "  N , 10 ° 24 ′ 52.5"  E