Borre mound cemetery

Borre mound cemetery Norwegian: Borrehaugene from the Old Norse phrases burro and haugr which means mound forms a part of the Borre National Park at Horten in Vestfold, Norway. It is the biggest burial mound web page in Northern Europe. Borre National Park is home to the most sizeable collection of king's graves in Scandinavia. It is domestic to seven huge and 21 smaller burial mounds. Excavations inside the Nineteen Eighties revealed that the oldest mounds date to 600 AD, i.E. Prior to the Viking age. The park covers 45 acres 182,000 m² and its series of burial mounds is terrific in Scandinavia. Today, seven massive mounds and one cairn may be visible. At least mounds and one cairn have been destroyed in modern times.

There also are 25 smaller cairns and the cemetery may also were larger. Some of the monuments are over 45m in diameter and up to 6m excessive. Borrehaugene affords crucial historical expertise and may be visible as proof that there was a nearby energy middle from the Merovingian duration to the Viking age. The first investigations of the cemetery passed off in 1851-1852. Local street-builders used one of the mounds as a gravel-pit and inside the procedure destroyed large components of a richly ready grave in a Viking deliver. Antiquarian Nicolay Nicolaysen examined what turned into left of the mound. The grave contained weapons and using system.