Sandagergård's cult house
The cult house of Sandagergård is located in the village of Venslev northwest of Skibby on the Hornsherred peninsula on the Danish island of Zealand , about 15 km southwest of Frederikssund . The Bronze Age (1100–500 BC) building was found in 1986 when a natural gas pipeline was being laid in Kyndbyværket. In front of the building are three monoliths and four stones with petroglyphs in the form of so-called hand signals.
The 18.5 m long and 7.5 m wide building, located in a north-south direction, was marked by a square stone and a double row of large, round stones between 0.2 and 0.5 m in diameter. There is a distance of 0.7 m between the rows of stones. The internal dimensions are 16 × 4.5 m. There were no post holes due to the ground conditions. It contained three urn graves and a weak cultural layer with broken pieces of crucibles and fragments of forms. The four stones with hand signals and the finds from the cult house are in the Færgegården Museum in Jægerspris .
context
In connection with the cult of the dead, buildings were built for cult purposes as early as the Stone Age. From the Neolithic (around 3500-3000 BC) cult houses ( Danish Kulthus ) in the form of rectangular wooden buildings, sometimes with large stone blocks in the construction, are known in Jutland ( Tustrup burial ground ). During their excavations, the same exquisite pottery was found that is also known from passage graves .
literature
- Flemming Kaul: Sandagergård - A Late Bronze Age cultic Building with Rock Engravings and Menhirs from Northern Zealand, Denmark In: Acta Archaeologica, Vol. 56, 1985 Copenhagen 1987, pp. 31-54
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 193
Web links
- List of monuments in Frederiksborg Amt Rud Kjems, catalog over danske kultanlæg, private webpage
- Description (Danish)