Barkjær
The long hills of Barkjær (also Barkær) are of the "Konens Høj" type . The long hill lay on a silted island in Korup Sø (Lake), a remainder of the beginning of the 20th century dried Kolindsundes , on the East Jutland peninsula Djursland in Denmark , two kilometers west of the Aarhus airport .
They were about 6.0 and 7.0 m wide, 100 m long, stood parallel at a distance of 10 m and took up almost the entire area of the island surrounded by palisades . Fist-sized stones found along the two hills, which may be the former facing of the hills, were initially interpreted as sidewalks. Each hill was initially stabilized by 22 wooden boxes with wicker walls placed on stone foundations in the course of an extension, the traces of which Peter Vilhelm Glob believed to be the remains of a row of houses. The construction method documented in Idstedt , Schleswig-Flensburg and Barkjær is the forerunner of the megalithic versions, which is often documented in Denmark and especially in Poland . The Idstedter version was later built over with a megalithic system. Thus, Nordic and Breton megalithics are preceded by a mound phase that has been completely unknown for a long time. Barkjær was only used for a short time and there is a passage grave and a dolmen nearby .
In Denmark, Bygholm Nørremark , Frøslev Polde, Harreby , Mosegården, Storgård, Strandby Stovgrave, Surløkke, Teglværksgården and Troelstrup (all in Jutland ) are all in the same category. A fragment of a small copper plate and a small copper ring were found in Konens Høj von Egens, not far from Barkjær. The plate was placed on the forearm of the deceased and was probably worn as jewelry. A carbon-14 analysis showed it was dated to around 3650 BC. BC, which determines the approximate age of the plants of this type.
literature
- Peter Vilhelm Glob : prehistoric monuments of Denmark. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968 p. 56
- Elisabeth Munksgaard: Denmark: An Archaeologigal Guide Faber and Faber London 1970 p. 53
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "The houses, the type of which are a model for the giant beds, were found in a village near Barkjær [...]."
- ^ Seweryn Rzepecki: The roots of megalitism in the TRB culture . Instytut Archeologii Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 2011. ISBN 978-83-933586-1-8
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Coordinates: 56 ° 18 ′ 17.6 ″ N , 10 ° 33 ′ 8.5 ″ E