Frygne Burial Site

You are now at the Frygne burial site. This cultural heritage area exemplifies the burial methods of the Iron Age from the migration time to the early Iron Age 400-1000 AD. The burial site shows that there was an established Iron Age Community in Nore from the migratory time it also shows that it was important for the people living on the farm in Frygne to show their clan affiliations by erecting marked burial mounds. It is likely that they were in use for generations after the early Iron Age. The Burial area contains around 30 mounds, one oblong and the rest of them round. 20 of the mounds are on the flat and the rest on a slope. The mounds are made of medium and small rocks with pebbles in between. It is natural to connect the location of the burial mound with the traffic passing over the Hardanger plateau in ancient times. At that time the south ‘Normannsslepa’ path ran over the mountains above Frygne and the old mountain road between Nore and Tinn also ran past this site. A well-preserved burial area with so many burial mounds is unusual in Buskerud and makes this an important regional cultural heritage area. The burial site is automatically protected. Associated to the Frygne Farm is a story about the Frogner Farmers’ grain barrels. According to the story, which may have elements of reality, this was a rich and powerful farm, but a land slide destroyed large parts of the agricultural land and the farm lost its importance.