Help with spot

[Sylivinia]

Please provide:

• A screenshot of your nomination, including rejection reasons if it has already been rejected
• Include the title, description, both photos, and supplemental information
• Copy and paste the title, description and supplemental so others can translate them
• If you feel comfortable please share the location, as it is helpful (i.e. hidden duplicates), but you can mask it if you wish.

Screen shotted this spot, are kinda new with applying on my own. Used to just let others, to do it. Got 2 new through in my area, but we do have those marking stone with F.M on - Fortidsmindesten or in english prehistoric momery stone. Their useally placed on historical burial mounts, pre historic religous spots and settlements from around the Bronze age, some places even older than the pyramides. I guess I messed up my nomenations, but from my view points the F.M stones, despite kinda being mass produced just like waypointer and path pointers but in stone instead of plastic and wood. Are a bit similar, during to being pointing out, when or where people, can be looking for the past and sometimes when their on it. Sometimes its from an old long house with stone left, sometimes a round burial mount and so on. Am I over adding into the text? The spot got an small grass parking lot, next to where busses with useally park in the summer with tourists on guided tour, people on bicycles and in cars. So any who knows how, i can applying them?

[salixsorbus]

Welcome to the forums

My very first wayspot submission was a definitely eligible remarkable boundary marker, for which I passed the details to someone else to upload because I had no idea what I was doing, so you are not alone in learning while exploring

The photo itself doesn’t tell me anything, doesn’t show me that this is a post worth exploring. As a guideline, the post should fill half the width and half the height of the photo.

Boundary stones and location marker stones are potentially eligible, but you do need to sell them to the reviewers if they aren’t selling themselves.

[Sylivinia]

Thank you very much for the respond, well I guess i just have to try again with some even better pictures, when the snow storm have passed and the worst of the snow. Would maybe a title on what mount type, it stands on + Marker type as ending? Be a good type of title? I am I might have added to much, to description during to explaining the burial type ect. I been a bit worried, for if i have been to over explaining in description. I am sadly on somethings and quiet often, an over studier for what is needed for the spots.

But i guess in the end, i just trying to learn for our rureal areas who are lovely on foot or bicycle, when the weather allows it. How their can have spots, for active people and playfull people of all ages.

[salixsorbus]

I find a decent title and an attractive photo are key to anything that isn’t immediately obvious (such as a church, playground). I suspect that many reviewers make the decision immediately on seeing those, even if they don’t intend to.

If a title is too short (e.g, “Boundary Marker”) or too long (e.g., “Boundary Marker found in the hedgerows between the fields behind Royston Varsey”), these might put off reviewers and cause them to look for reasons to reject.

If the photo makes reviewers go “what is this??” and they have to zoom in to try and understand what is being submitted, you’ve almost certainly lost them regardless of how well you describe it.

For wayspots in rural surroundings like this, cleaning the area first might be needed. If this is on top of anything, that photo doesn’t show this, so you might need to clear the ground to make something visible.

If there is a marking on the stone, make sure you include this in the photo (I can’t see it in this photo). If this means scrambling through brambles to get to the other side, then that’s what you need to do

[TjoeMi]

Lol this is a very good advice haha

[JakobHelms]

I would actually not nominate these (and I would not approve them either). The Fortidsminde markers are were as far as I know mostly meant to mark the area for archeological visits later on. They are not meant as public guidance like trail markers are - they are not meant for “pointing out when or where people can be looking for the past”.

I don’t think you should be concerned with explaining too much in the description; some of mine are very long, some of mine are short. If it’s relevant, then keep it.

I would probably approve this Jættestue with a good description.

These two pictures are of Vejlekromøddingen. It is archeologically interesting, but I myself would never be able to write a good reason to nominate it as a Wayspot, and the picture of the Fortidsmindemarkør being there would not be enough for me.

I would say that the Fortidsmindemarkør is not the interesting object, what it is marking is; focus on that, also in your pictures, and you might get it approved in the end, but I think you should also consider if it is also a genuinely good place to explore, because most of them are not.

Ps.
Here are two of ones I personally really like, but would not nominate as a Wayspot.

Toftegærds Bakke, which is super interesting with its history as a gravesite through multiple periods, being a burial mound from sometime 4000-500 years BC, while archeologists have also discovered burial items the iron age.

Trehøje, which to me is a super beautiful and even older Rundhøj… But it’s also just a hill in a field with a stone on it (which is why it wouldn’t make a good Wayspot)

[Sylivinia]

Those are the ones, i been struggling with and a horse wheel sclupture as well, which I haven’t included, cause people keeps insisting its on private ground despite being both on public and private - in danish we call it “I skel” and the skel, is out to a public road/ owned by the county, which is low traffic road, like you might meet 1 car pr hour or so. Being right next to the road, where I even asked the landowner, if their special number sign was on their land or public ground, which are commen around here for farm numbers or the old names of roads or farms and totally acceptable from the county, like an old right to have it out there. Which is nearby a hamlet with literally no spots and even the little community garden/place where locals meet up during good weather and summer, which is on private ground sadly so cant submit that one - Of what I am are aware. Currently waiting for the snow, to melt so an old direction stone can be submitted, which will be the only spot in kilometers for that one. Yes, I walks often different paths and routes.

Also the old horse plow sculpture in a different hamlet, which is upcycling of old farming equipment and made into a entry sclupture, donated to the playground project from one of the old farms, where it was found on loft in the barn. Then where melted together with an iron pot to it to make a big and small flower pot, for the playground which is under renovation - its been, in so bad condition for years. That when we tried to submit it, through a follow player 10 year’s ago it got rejected not just once but like 3 times. Which are in another hamlet, with in walking distance.

And why the burial mount, keeps getting rejected no idea - I tried different times of the day, with pictures and different angles and so on. The sign next to it, is already on and so is the burial mount longer down, where the old top stone are missing (proberly ended up, in a house foundation or as a support stone in the buttom of the local church, long story) There is in total 5 burial mounts, got MF stones on them. Tried those too, even from the front with them right on. Only on the burial mounts, who is right out to road or haves a path to them. Cause non wants, people out on the fields walking for pokespot, to potentially ruin corn or other plants for harvest during summer. But the ones right next to the roads or paths, i dont see any issues in are getting on. Cause it is just sign marking, for here is an area of interest of the past. Ofc there are people, who will disagree but then the same people should disagree on the sign showing a walking path, bike path or similar being spots too then.

[salixsorbus]

Quick reactions on the photos in that last post.

First photo looks like a pile of boulders. If it is more than that, you need to find a way to make it look like more than that, which might be tricky. Alternatively, go heavy on the supporting information to prove what it is.

Second photo looks very eligible to me at least.

First photo of old farm equipment is slanted badly, enough that you lose reviewers instantly regardless of what the POI is.

You might need to wait for the snow to melt to take better pictures, as the snow takes away a lot of the context. The farm equipment doesn’t come across as anything interesting.

[Sylivinia]

Tried the first one again today, with different angles and more supporting pictures. Cause its not randoms stones, their like 1 ton or more each. Which makes one wonder, how on earth did they get the top stone up there. One can even walk inside, which is allowed during to the remains of who ever, was buried there are long gone.

The second one, got rejected all 3-4 times i tried so far. Can try seeing if, i can finding my nomenations mail/information. Cause it would be lovely, to get them all on. I even reached out, to the county for hearing how its going with the volunteer group for clearing the easy accesible burial mounts, which are visited by culture and history interested people, year around. Also wrote some other ideas down, so it could become better places to visit in general for people who is on a trip as either tourists or just locals, biking around in the area.

For the last one, Sadly it looks like that or maybe wait and see, when the playground is done and the flowers are blooming if I can get a different angels and that on it. Cause it would give sense, if it together with the hopefully soon modernised playground can get on together. Cause it would be a safe zone, for kids and for adults too, to run and play with or without their phones.

[salixsorbus]

That picture is better as you can see a beaten path and get a better sense of scale, especially when you say you can walk inside. An even more obvious path would be even better

For the boundary marker, with a photo that good, has it also been sent to appeal and rejected there?

[Sylivinia]

The time i submitted it first, it got rejected for not being uniq or historical importance, I guess i got it marked wrongly? When submitting or bad text?

[salixsorbus]

Apologies, not a boundary marker, my mistake

I would describe that engraved post as it is. It looks like an engraved post. It might sit on top of a burial mound, but that isn’t what it is (and the vegetation makes it hard to see the mound).

“Engraved post marking BC 3800 burial mound” is one possibility, but this fails to explain what the engravings mean. If you can find out what they mean and reference this in the title, this would help.

Admittedly, I can only see your description not the title, so I am guessing as to what title you used.

[Sylivinia]

This is what I been calling them on the newer version, through I assume the snow was a bit to much in the pictures back then.

[salixsorbus]

Using the google-translated-into-English titles because I can type them easier

Apple orchard information sign - good title, what were the rejection reasons?
Protected Memorial - has the problem I described above, as the submission is an engraved stone post
Protected Memorial Marup - same issue
The round mound of Mejdkirken - snow removes context, looks like boulders

I’m just trying to brainstorm what needs to change, as I suspect all these are eligible, but most have an issue with the submission details that means appealing isn’t the right option yet.

Definitely wait for the snow to disappear, which means waiting and waiting! I have a few named trail markers near me (UK) that I submitted in a rare snowy period, all quickly rejected. Submitted again a few months later, all accepted. My take from that was that reviewers hate snow.