Passage grave of Lunden

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The small passage grave of Lunden (also Tegneby 4) dates from the Neolithic Age around 3500–2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). It is located northeast of the hamlet of Lunden, in the south of the island of Orust in Västra Götaland in Sweden , was built around 5,000 years ago by the carriers of the funnel cup culture (TBK) and in 1915 by the archaeologist Wilhelm Ekman, who also built the passage grave of Leby and the nearby dolmen excavated by Haga ( Swedish Hagadosen ), examined.

The rhombic chamber consists of eight large bearing stones with a flat interior and intermediate masonry . Since it was covered by a single capstone, which later broke, it is a dolmen and not a passage grave according to German nomenclature . The 2.5 m long, sloping corridor remnant, of which five bearing stones and three ceiling slabs (one in situ ) have been preserved, lies in the southeast. The chamber is surrounded by the remains of a 0.8 m high, about ten meter large pile of earth and stone.

In the chamber there were stone and flint tools , five small pieces of amber , a double button made of amber and over 400 shards from around 20 vessels. Above all outside the corridor were ornate pieces of glass from various vessels. This may be due to the fact that the vessels were shattered on site as a sacrifice or sacrificed on later occasions. The decorated goods indicate contacts with Denmark . Among the finds was an elegantly shaped, decorated foot bowl.

The archaeological investigation came to a tragic end. When the heavy capstone collapsed, Vilhelm Ekman was killed. Next to the passage grave is a memorial stone for Ekman, who wrote a dissertation on Stone Age settlements on Orust and Tjörn in 1922 .

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literature

  • Lars Bägerfeldt: Megalitgravarna i Sverige. Type, tid, rum och social miljö. 2nd edition, Arkeo Förlaget, Gamleby 1992, ISBN 91-86742-45-0 .
  • Lili Kaelas: Dolmen and passage graves in Sweden. Reports and Communications on prehistory, early history, etc. Medieval archeology. Writings of the Provincial Institute for Folk and State Research at the University of Kiel, Offa. 15, pp. 5-24, 1956.
  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 253 ( Politikens håndbøger ).
  • Christopher Tilley: The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden. An Introduction and Guide. Institute of Archeology, University College London, London 1999, ISBN 9780905853369 .

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Coordinates: 58 ° 7 ′ 8.9 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 1 ″  E