Hørhøj
The Hørhøj is a passage grave ( Danish Jættestue ) with one of the rare side chambers ( Danish bikammer ). Only 30 such structures (of 500 preserved) can be found around the Limfjord ( Lundehøj ), in Djursland ( Tustrup ), three on Zealand ( passage grave in Kornerup Mark ), two on Lolland ( Bag-Hyldehøj and Torhøj ).
Hørhøj lies in the field of Pilegård, east of Gammel Lejre on the Danish island of Zealand. The plant of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) comes from the middle Neolithic (about 3200–2800 BC). Hills of the same name exist in Klejtrup, Møldrup and Røbæk in Jutland . 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.
description
The north-east-south-west oriented passage grave lies in an approximately 1.8 m high round hill with a diameter of 13.0 m. The slightly oval chamber, with a side chamber in the east, consists of 13 bearing stones. The only surviving capstone lies in the north. Eight bearing stones of the corridor have been preserved in situ , but none of its capstones. The rectangular side chamber, slightly offset from the corridor, which is roughly in the middle, is formed by three side stones (one tilted); the capstone is also missing here. A single intermediate masonry has been preserved at the northern end of the chamber. The mass of the bearing stones is set so tight that no intermediate masonry was required. There are old drawings of the excavation of Hørhøj by Andreas Peter Madsen (1822–1911) in 1883.
See also
literature
- Klaus Ebbesen: Danmarks megalitgrave. Volume 2: Catalog. Attika, Copenhagen 2008, ISBN 978-87-7528-731-4 .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 37 ′ 9.7 ″ N , 11 ° 59 ′ 1.6 ″ E