Arnager's passage grave

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Jættestue by Arnager
Scheme passage grave (cross-section) 1 = bearing stones, 2 = cap stones, 3 = mound, 4 = seal, 5 = wedge stones, 6 = access, 7 = threshold stone. 8 = floor slabs, 9 = sub-floor depots, 10 = intermediate masonry 11 = curb stones

The small passage grave of Arnager is located southeast of Rønne on the outskirts of Arnager on the Danish island of Bornholm . In 1933 Johannes Brøndsted had promised the Bornholm Museum to examine the passage grave ( Danish Jættestue ), which is located in a round hill. In the course of 1937 the later Reich Conservator and archaeologist Peter Vilhelm Glob came to the island. The large stone grave dates from the Neolithic around 3500–2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). It is one of 14 largely preserved passage graves on the island. The passage grave 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. 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.

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Passage grave near Arnager

The almost rectangular chamber is very short for a passage grave, but relatively wide (3.7 × 2.3 m). The former three capstones (the middle one is missing) lie over 12 supporting stones. The corridor, about three meters long and 0.9 m wide, consists of two preserved pairs of bearing stones, the capstones of which are missing. Two locking devices were arranged in the corridor. A threshold stone is located in the entrance to the chamber.

It was initially assumed that the large visible stones on the large stone grave of Arnager were the capstones of a round dolmen ( Danish runddysse ). This was supported by the fact that at that time there were only excavated or recorded dolmens from the Neolithic period , which the TBK carriers had built. During the excavation, shattered ceramics, daggers and perforated disc lobes were found in the upper soil layers . Fieldstones were found that had been thrown into the chamber at an earlier stage. On the floor of the megalithic complex lay a 40–50 cm thick layer that had remained untouched since the Neolithic. This layer contained many grave goods . Including two completely preserved bowls, numerous amber beads , flint flakes and fragments of 15 human skulls. The megalithic complex was restored in 2008.

Nearby is Lundestenen , Bornholm's largest passage grave. A total of eleven of the 14 passage graves on Bornholm have been preserved. Worth seeing include Bønnestenen in Bodilsker, Jættedal and Vasagård in Åker, Sillehøj and Hallebrøndshøj near Ibsker and Tornegård in Nylars .

See also

literature

  • Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , pp. 339-341
  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 226

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.

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Coordinates: 55 ° 3 ′ 19.4 "  N , 14 ° 46 ′ 55.7"  E