Passage grave Sillehøj
The passage grave Sillehøj (also called Rageskovsgård or Raageskovgaard) is located east of the Paradisbakkerne , at Ibsker northwest of Nexø , on the Danish island of Bornholm . It was built during the Neolithic Age , about 5000 years ago, by the carriers of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). The passage grave ( Danish: Jættestue ) is a form of Neolithic megalithic systems , which consists of a chamber and a structurally separated, lateral passage. This form is primarily found in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, as well as occasionally in France and the Netherlands.
Sillehøj is a wooded hill about 3.5 m high and about 21 m in diameter, in which there is a north-west-south-east oriented passage grave with one of what used to be at least three capstones in situ . Torn out intermediate masonry lies on the stone mound covered with a layer of earth, mainly to the east of the chamber. The roughly rectangular chamber consists of 11 supporting stones. There is no intermediate masonry between two stones in the west, which led to the penetration of mound soil in the floor area of the approximately 3.8 m long and 1.5 m wide chamber. The corridor, whose bearing stones are largely covered by earth, is only covered by cap stones at the rear end.
See also
literature
- Peter V. Glob : prehistoric monuments of Denmark. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 4 ′ 47 ″ N , 15 ° 7 ′ 7.5 ″ E