Trappendal burial mound

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The burial mound of Trappendal , about one kilometer from the Baltic Sea coast, between the Jutland towns of Haderslev and Kolding , contained, when excavated in 1975, similarly well-preserved graves as the burial mound of Egtved . Its specialty, however, is a house that is precisely fitted into the round hill Sejlshøj ( Danish Trappendal huset ), the floor plan of which has been preserved. The house of the individual grave culture is divided into three rooms in the style of later Viking buildings , with the two end rooms having strongly rounded corners that almost form apses . The burial was located in the center of the hill at the same time as the central room of the west-north-west-east-south-east oriented house. A similar house floor plan was in the hills of a small passage grave at Damsbo on the island of Funen discovered.

The two-column house , from the 14th century BC. BC, from the Middle Nordic Bronze Age is 24 meters long and nine meters wide. For a long time, houses from the older Bronze Age were completely unknown. In rare cases, however, they have been developed under mound embankments. In the meantime, numerous house floor plans from the older Bronze Age have been discovered in the course of large-scale construction measures and a changed strategy of monument preservation in Germany, parts of Denmark and southern Sweden.

At Handewitt in the Schleswig-Flensburg district , the hill has not only preserved the larger part of a house floor plan with the traces of the past posts, but also the furrows of a hook plow . Only slightly smaller floor plans were discovered in 2010 (as a pair) oriented roughly west-east, on a hill north of Sønder Omme, north of Grindsted . The shape and the special treatment of the structures of Trappendal and Handewitt make it unlikely that they are residential buildings.

literature

  • A. Boysen & S. Wulff Andersen: Trappendal - høj og hus fra ældre bronzealder 1983
  • Kaare Lund Rasmussen: Radiocarbon Dates from Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlements at Hemmed, Højgård and Trappendal, Jutland, Denmark In: Journal of Danish Archeology Volume 10, Issue 1, 1991
  • WH Zimmermann: A funnel-shaped house floor plan from Flögeln-Örtjen Kr. Cuxhaven In: Materialhefte zur prehistory and early history of Lower Saxony 16 (1980)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Müller: Large stone graves, ditch works, long hills - Early Monumental Buildings of Central Europe 2017 ( Online )

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Coordinates: 55 ° 22 ′ 33 "  N , 9 ° 35 ′ 49.8"  E