This archaeological site, called Sletten-Bakkan, quite literally hides a distant history. A number of numbered posts (some of which are no longer legible) in a heavily overgrown area refer to the map on the information board, which invites you to further use your imagination:
"Welcome to a forgotten Iron Age farm. Here you can enjoy the beautiful landscape that surrounded the homes of people and animals thousands of years ago, with their houses and fields, the smell of their food and smoke.
Today it is difficult to imagine the teeming life that once was there. All that is left of the houses are indentations in the ground and monuments and stone fences covered with sod. But if you can see these traces, the journey becomes a journey to a land of the past. This is one of the few places in the world where traces of the Iron Age still dominate the scene.
However, the echo of an ax in the hillside, the smell of smoke and meat soup, arguments, laughter and broad jokes, pieces of laundry blowing in the wind, rhythmic splashes of milk in the bucket, the smell of garbage behind the house, all this you have to create in your imagination. If you succeed, we promise you an exciting visit.
Step carefully! It is strange to think that Iron Age inhabitants are still present in this landscape. Today, relics from the past can still be found between overgrown fences and blocks of houses. Therefore, we must step carefully, without making too much noise. Someone walking quietly will feel the little extra in the atmosphere. When you leave, only the past remains. You must take all the waste from your stop with you to the present."
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