Kobberup burial box
The well-preserved burial box from Kobberup near Skive in the Midtjylland region in Jutland in Denmark was excavated in 1966. The grave box ( Danish gravkiste ) was in a burial mound made of heather and peat. Its contents have been well preserved.
The hill was pretty much destroyed. But it contained a 4 m long, undisturbed stone chamber. A plank coffin was built on site for the dead. It was about 1.3 m long and 1 m wide. The height was about 30 cm. Only the inner part of the box, where the corpse lay, was lined with boards, while the rest of the box was free.
The east-west oriented dead person was possibly lying on a layer of straw and wrapped in fur. The additions included two vessels made of birch bark, a wooden plate, two axes and amber jewelry .
The dead of the single grave culture were usually and especially initially buried individually. Collective burials were found north of Grenaa . A box at Gjerrild contained six adults, a young man and three children. In the sternum of one of the men, an arrowhead of the so-called "D-pil type" was found, which was developed by the Dimple Ceramic Culture (GKK).
Nearby are the passage grave of Gamskær and the Møllehøje of Kobberup .
See also
literature
- Elisabeth Munksgaard: Denmark: An archaeological guide. Faber, London 1970, ISBN 0-571-09196-2 . S.?
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