Glentehøj
The Glentehøj is a passage grave ( Danish Jættestue - German "big room" ) on the Danish island of Lolland . The prehistoric monument is a megalithic complex of the funnel beaker culture (TBK), which was built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC originated. It is located in the northwest of the island east of Kragenæs . 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.
In 1826, Count Reventlow and Erasmus Carl Kamla (1800? -1865), the German private tutor at Gut Pederstrup, examined Glentehøj. It was not his first excavation and the excavation report written in German by EC Kamla shows that he had thoroughly examined the facilities. Before the excavation, locals found some flint daggers and shattered pottery.
description
By the Access northwest-southeast oriented ago chamber is trapezoidal 8,95 m long and about. While the long, straight north-west side and the south-east side, divided by the access, have seven bearing stones, the straight north-east 1.5 m wide front side has one and the slightly bulged, approximately 2.5 m wide south-west two end stones. The chamber is covered by five capstones that decrease in size from southwest to northeast. The high and wide access, which is typical for Dutch systems, consists of eight bearing stones and four cap stones. Only the outer trilith element seems to be missing. The gussets between the orthostats were filled with intermediate masonry.
Finds
A wooden chest and a number of objects ( amber beads , axes , chisels and flakes of flint, and ceramics) were found in the chamber . The vessels were also found on the dry stone wall edging . From Kamla's records of the contents of the large stone grave, it can be seen that the complex was no different from others. The special thing about it is that a capstone in the chamber weighs around 25 tons. This makes it one of the heaviest cap stones in a TBK megalithic complex. The wooden chest in the grave indicates that this large facility was reused in the Bronze Age .
After completing the excavation, Count Reventlow decided to restore the hill and to seal the complex. A bench was placed in the chamber and a hole was made in the ceiling to allow daylight to enter. Gustav Rosenberg carried out a restoration of Glentehøj in 1925, which at that time had remained untouched for almost 100 years. In the 1980s there were problems with vandalism at Glentehøj, which were eliminated by a restoration in 1988.
Nearby
South of road 289 east of Horslunde Kong Svends Høj is the largest passage grave on the island and one of the best preserved in Denmark.
See also
literature
- Torben Dehn, Svend I. Hansen, Flemming Kaul: Klekkendehøj og Jordehøj. Restaureringer og undersøgelser 1985-90 (= Stenaldergrave i Danmark. Vol. 2). Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen 2000, ISBN 87-7279-146-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ 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: 54 ° 54 '23.4 " N , 11 ° 21' 8.3" E