Kong Asger Høj

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Kong Asgers Høj
Scheme of passage grave (cross-section) 1 = support stone, 2 = cap stone, 3 = mound, 4 = seal, 5 = wedge stones, 6 = access, 7 = threshold stone. 8 = floor slabs, 9 = sub-floor depots, 10 = intermediate masonry 11 = curb stones

The passage grave in Kong Asger Høj is about 10.0 m long next to Listrup on Falster (at least 13 m), Græse (12.5 m) on Zealand , Kong Svends Høj (12.3 m) on Lolland , Birkehøj (11 m) on Zealand as well as Jordehøj on Møn and Mårhøj on Fyn (10 m each) one of the largest passage graves (Danish Jættestue ) in Denmark . In Sweden there is only Falbygden in Swedish (e.g. Ragnvald's grave at 16 meters). longer chambers In Germany ( De hoogen Steener with 28.0 m) and the Netherlands (e.g. D27 in Borger with 22.5 m) the so-called Emsland chambers are sometimes considerably longer.

With the megalithic sites , Klekkende Høj , Grønjægers Høj and the Sprove Runddysse , it is one of the most visited prehistoric places near the village of Sprove in the west of the island of Møn . The large stone grave dates from the Neolithic around 3500–2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). 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. Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered to be the hallmarks of social development.

Research history

The story of King Asger Høj begins in 1839 when the merchant Gustav Hage from Stege tried to find treasure in the round hill, but only found a few antiques. A stone ax, some chips and crumbled skeletal parts. The finds were given to the National Museum and the barrow was placed under protection by voluntary agreement in 1861. The National Museum received the first description of the passage grave in 1880 in connection with the nationwide parish descriptions, in which the country was systematically examined for ancient monuments and relics for the first time. They form the backbone of the national and publicly accessible register, which currently contains more than 170,000 locations, of which around 30,000 are visible, protected monuments.

description

The almost empty megalithic complex, which Gustav Hage found architecturally untouched since prehistoric times, may have been cleared out in prehistoric times. The discovery of an ax that is around 600 years younger suggests that the barn was built long after it was built, around 3200 BC. BC was used for a subsequent burial of the Corded Ceramics Culture, which usually cleared the facilities first.

The approximately 10 m long and 2 m wide chamber is accessed through a 7.5 m long corridor . With the exception of a few stones in the intermediate masonry in the outer section, the system is complete. The corridor consists of seven pairs of bearing stones on which six cap stones rest. The chamber is built very regularly and almost symmetrically. 19 bearing stones carry seven huge slabs that form the chamber ceiling. The chamber height is relatively large at almost two meters. Large curbs with dry stone masonry were placed in the gaps around the foot of the hill. Flat stone slabs were used as floor material in the chamber.

context

A total of 119 large stone graves from the Neolithic Age are known on the islands of Møn and Bogø, which are only 231 km² in size . 38 of them have been preserved and protected. 21 of them are passage graves of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) which between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC originated. Archaeologists estimate that the large stone graves that have been preserved represent only about 20% of those originally built. On Møn and Bogø, more than 190 large stone graves were originally created over a period of only 700 years.

Mythical royal names are also linked to prehistoric monuments in other places in Denmark / Schleswig:

See also

literature

  • Peter Vilhelm Glob : prehistoric monuments of Denmark . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968, p. 74
  • Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 316
  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 216

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Müller : Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier , Erich Claßen, Thomas Doppler, Britta Ramminger (eds.): Varia neolithica VI. Neolithic Monuments and Neolithic Societies. Contributions from the meeting of the Neolithic Working Group during the annual meeting of the North-West German Association for Ancient Research in Schleswig, 9. – 10. October 2007 (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Vol. 56). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-28-2 , pp. 7-16, here p. 15.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 57 ′ 25.8 ″  N , 12 ° 8 ′ 24.7 ″  E