Jyderup Dolmen

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The dolmen of Jyderup (also Axelholm Langdysse) belong to a place between 3500 and 2800 BC. Built AD. Megalithic site of the middle Neolithic period , which by the people of the Funnel Beaker Culture was established (TBK). The facility is located on Amtsvejen, north-west of the eponymous place Jyderup in the north-western part of the Danish island of Zealand . Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.

Scheme of polygonal poles from above

description

The flat, edgeless hill of the north-south oriented megalopolis (Danish: Langdysse) is about 33 m long and eight meters wide. It contains two chambers of different types.

  • The southern chamber is a polygonal pole . It consists of four bearing stones and a capstone and is about 2.05 m long and 1.3 m wide.
  • The northern one is the remainder of a primeval dolmen , an accessible , box-like , small chamber made of massive boulders . It consists of three (originally four) bearing stones and a capstone. The second has been lost. The Urdolmen, also referred to as a stone box , is unusually long at around 2.8 m and 0.85 m wide.

See also

literature

  • Jakob Vedsted: Fortidsminder og Kulturlandskab. En kildekritisk analysis af tragtbaegerkulturens found material from Norddjursland. Forlaget Skippershoved, Ebeltoft 1986, ISBN 87-981329-5-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Müller : Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier , Erich Claßen, Thomas Doppler, Britta Ramminger (eds.): Varia neolithica VI. Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. Contributions from the meeting of the Neolithic Working Group during the annual meeting of the North-West German Association for Ancient Research in Schleswig, 9. – 10. October 2007 (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 56). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-28-2 , pp. 7-16, here p. 15.
  2. Langdysser is the common denomination in Denmark for dolmens that lie in a rectangular barren bed, in contrast to this, round dolmen or round dysser are those dolmens that are located in a round hill

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Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 25 ″  E