Bøkeskogen ("The Beech Tree Forest") stretches inwards along
Farris Lake in
Larvik
Larvik () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Vestfold. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Larvik (town) ...
. It is an archeological area which is home to between 83, 90,
and 100 burial mounds.
[Bertelsen, Hans Kristian (1998). ''Bli kjent med Vestfold / Become acquainted with Vestfold''. Stavanger Offset AS. Page 63. .] It contains
Vestfold County's largest burial grounds from the
Pre-Roman Iron Age
The archaeology of Northern Europe studies the prehistory of Scandinavia and the adjacent North European Plain,
roughly corresponding to the territories of modern Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Northern Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and Belgium.
...
. Besides being Vestfold's largest grave site,
Bøkeskogen is considered one of Norway's most accessible remains from the Viking Age.
Bøkeskogen is 0.3 km
2 (74 acres). It is home to miles of hiking trails. Bøkeskogen is home to one of Norway's largest burial mounds from the
Iron Age
The Iron Age () is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. It has also been considered as the final age of the three-age division starting with prehistory (before recorded history) and progre ...
. The highest point is known as “The Bellevue”, which offers panoramic views of the
Farris Lake.
It was
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
's first public area, given in 1884 by manor house owner
Treschow-Fritzøe to the residents of Larvik. The area was protected by the Norwegian
Nature Diversity Act in 1980.
References
Larvik
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