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Rystad - Burial Mound and Farm Mound

Site/Artefact
Rystad farm number 94

Type
Burial mound and Farm mound

Site Number
Nr. 27

NGO Grid Reference
23331,7
1141170,3

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ØK reference: R6 3155 J10

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Burial mound: 13m long, 5m wide and 0.5m high. The burial mound is situated 100m west north west of the farmhouse.

The Farm mound is situated in the same area, 20 x 35 m, cultural layers about 1 m thick. Finds: 2 hones of slate, shreds from soapstone vessels, 2 fragments of baking plates (plates of soapstone), and a small flake of flint. (Museumnumber TS 7096 a-d).

Other finds submitted:

Fish-weight of soap stone and a hone of slate, found close to the farm house. This could come from the farm-mound. Several more hones have been found at the farm earlier. Ts. 7034 a-b (museum number).

Spindle whirl from Rystad. Found by Aase Lundestad
(Photo: Wenche Brun)

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