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Handberg Charcoal-Pits

 

Site/Artefact Handberg farm number 95 Type Charcoal pits Site Number Nr. 31 NGO Grid Reference 24020,8 1140561,2 Map ( 1:50000) ØK reference:?R5 3155 J11 List of Sites and Artefacts Click Here Interactive Map Click Here

Description
Registrations from 1978 supply us with the following description:

Charcoal pits, situated in outlaying fields at "Lannghanger". 650-750 m south-west of the farmhouses.

Furthest North:

1. Pit containing charcoal, 1 m in dm, 0.4 m in depth

18 m SSW of 1:

2. Charcoal pit 3, 5 m in dm

35 m WSW of 2:

3. Pit containing charcoal, 1 m in dm, 0, 5 m in depth

30 m SW of 3:

4. Charcoal pit, 4 m in dm

45 m W from 4:

5. Charcoal pit, 5 m in dm

About 3-4 m south from nr. 1, traces of another pit can be seen:

6. 0, 5 m in dm and 0,4 m indepth.

A possible charcoal pit is also localised c. 300 m S from the farm houses: 4, 5 m in dm

These structures were earlier defined as Sámi house sites, but redefined as charcoal pits in 2002.

Excavation Details
Not Available

Access/Ownership
Private property

References

• National Registrations from 1970, supplement registrations by Kåre Ringstad in 1978, Topographical Archive, Tromsø Museum

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