Køkkenmøddinger in Krabbesholmskov

The two Køkkenmøddinger in Krabbesholmskov (forest) are two prehistoric heaps of rubbish made from mussel shells. They are located at the foot of a southern slope near Skive in the Midtjylland region in Jutland in Denmark .

The Køkkenmøddinger are 30 to 40 meters long, 12 to 15 meters wide and up to a meter thick. As early as 1831, artifacts from the eastern pile were handed over to the National Museum by Jens Dalsgård . It is the earliest find from a Danish rubbish heap. The excavation in 1889 revealed that the lower layer is characterized by oyster shells , while the upper part is made up of cockle shells . The oldest layer comes from the Mesolithic Ertebølle Culture (4800–4000 BC) The younger upper layer comes from the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK; 4000–2700 BC)

At Resen, south of Krabbesholmskov, one of only seven animal figures made of amber known in Denmark was found.

literature

• Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid. 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 134.

Web links

• About the Danish Køkkenmøddinger, Geus: Geologi, 4/99 (Danish; PDF; 3.0 MB)
• Fiskeri - før og nu (Danish), with distribution map 17-1 (In: Den Store Danske Encyklopædi )
• Krabbesholm ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Description, location, find history (Danish)

Coordinates: 56 ° 34 ′ 11.3 "  N , 9 ° 2 ′ 43.9"  E