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The Hunn Stone Circles
Hunnfeltene is an area of burial fields from the approximately 1000 BCE during the Nordic Bronze Age. The fields are in Fredrikstad and a part of Oldtidsruta. I made brief visit to one of these fields with stone circles on my way to sites with petroglyphs in the area.
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Begby Gullskår Petroglyphs
The Begby petroglyphs in Fredrikstad are dated to the Nordic Bronze Age (1800 BCE -500 BCE). This is the largest rock art site located along Oldtidsruta in Østfold. This site is usually just referred to as Begby, or Begbyfeltene – named after the nearby Begby farm. There are two main groups of petroglyphs at Begby,…
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Kongsten Fort
Kongsten Fort is a fortress in Fredrikstad built around 1680 and it’s located close to Old Town Fredrikstad. I spent the night in a tent at a nearby camping site after visiting petroglyph sites along Oldtidsruta.