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Skjerpen

Site/Artefact
Skjerpen

Type
Burial-mounds, burial-cairns, grave-fields, farm-mounds, house-sites, farm-sites

Site Number
None

UTM Grid Reference
447486 East
7567514 North

Map ( 1:50000)
Topografisk Hovedkartserie - M711 No 1031 II

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Description
Skjerpen nedre: A number of grave-mounds.

Skjerpen øvre: A number of grave-mounds as well as a number of house dwellings are found. The site with its almost invisible wall-structures is hard to trace in the landscape. The Iron-age building technique is the reason why we are still able to see the remains today: The houses were built with an isolating outer wall of peat with a wooden wall inside. When the house collapses, the wall of peat still remains visible as a heap in the landscape. 

Rolvsjord: Remains of an Iron Age farm, consisting of 4 longhouses, 50 grave-mounds as well as smaller fields. The area was investigated by archaeologists during the 1970s and 80s. 

The area has a rather large amount of house-sites of the Iron-age type (the estimated number is 22), which is regarded as a large concentration compared with other areas.

Excavation Details
Not Available

Access/Ownership
Private property

References

Check out the following sections of the website for related information:

Vestvågøy Sites and Artefacts

1. Borg
2. Buksnesfjorden
3. Bøstad
4. Eggum
5. Einangen
6. Eltoft
7. Holsneset
8. Holsøya
9. Kvalnes
10. Moland
11. Nykmark
12. Skjerpen
13. Trollsteinen
14. Uttakleiv
15. Vendalsjord
16. The Stone Crosses
17. Malnes
18. Borg Burial Mounds
19. Borg Burial Mounds
20. Borg Roman House Site
21. Borg House Remains I:Ia
23. Borg I:Ib
24. Borg House Remains
25. Borg - Midden

26. Borg House Site
27. Borg House Sites
28. Borg Farm Ruins
29. Borg Medieval Sites
30. Borg Burial Mounds
31. Borg Possible Settlement
32. Borg Medieval House Site
33. Borg Boat Houses
34. Burial Mound
35. Burial Mound
36. Borg Burial Mound
37. Borg Modern Church
38. Bøstad Burial Cairn
39. Bøstad Removed Burials
40. Bøstad - Courtyard
41. Boat House and Burial
42. Bøstad House Sites
43. Bøstad Farm Mound
44. Rystad Boat Houses
45. Rystad Burial Mound
46. Burial and Farm Mound
47. Rystad Burial Mound
48. Rystad - Burials
49. Rystad Burial Cairn
50. Handberg Charcoal-Pits

51. Handberg Farm Mound
52. Handberg Charcoal Pit - 1
53. Handberg Charcoal Pit -2
54. Handberg Charcoal Pit - 3
55. Handberg Charcoal Pit - 4
56. Handberg Charcoal Pits
57. Handberg Charcoal Pit
58. Vendalsjord
59. Lie Burial Mound
60. Lie Boat House
61. Lie
62. Løvdal
63. Borgfjord Indre
64. Sletteng
65. Borgfjord Ytre
66. Ytre Borgfjord - Burial
67. Borgfjord Ytre
68. Ytre Borgfjord
69. Borgfjord Ytre
70. Hagvåg Boat House
71. Hagvåg Burial Mound
72. Hagvåg Bridge Construction
73. Evjen Farm Mound

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