Hovdysse
The Hovdysse (also called Stovdysse) is a long dolmen with two chambers on a park area north of the Piledyssen road in Gundsømagle near Roskilde on the Danish island of Zealand . The complex was built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a large stone grave of the funnel cup culture (TBK).
The northeast-southwest oriented Hovdysse has an irregular ground plan of about 17.0 × 12.0 m. At the northern end, the height of the hill is 0.5 m above the ground, in the south it is about 1.0 m. There are two chambers at the southern end of the enclosure. The chambers protrude about 1.0 m from the hill. The north-western one consists of three bearing stones and a capstone, the southeast of four in situ and two overturned bearing stones and a capstone. Some curbs of the enclosure are visible, the best preserved are in the northwest. Otherwise there are several smaller stones scattered on the hill.
In Gundsømagle there are the dolmen Hødysse von Gundsømagle or Eilsøholm Langdysse, Thoradysse , Langdysse 3 and Gundsømagle Runddysse.
See also
literature
- Peter V. Glob : prehistoric monuments of Denmark. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968.
- Jürgen E. Walkowitz: The megalithic syndrome. European cult sites of the Stone Age (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 36). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2003, ISBN 3-930036-70-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Langdolmen, Danish. Langdysse is the name commonly used in Denmark for dolmens that lie in a rectangular or trapezoidal barn bed, in contrast to this, round dolmens or round dysers are those dolmens that are located in a round hill
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Coordinates: 55 ° 44 ′ 22.9 ″ N , 12 ° 9 ′ 18 ″ E