Langdysse from Tågerup

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The Langdysse of Tågerup (also called Kæmpestenen) is located in a field on Hejnstrupvej, near Gundsølille near Roskilde , on the Danish island of Zealand . It is a megalithic complex of the funnel beaker culture (TBK), which dates back to between 3500 and 2800 BC. Was built.

The Langdysse has a 1.4 meter high mound bed and measures 12 × 8 meters. The chamber in the middle, which is open to the east, has three bearing stones and a cap stone. 13 curbs of the megalithic bed and remnants of the dry masonry in the chamber have been preserved. Nearby is the Gundsømagle Thoradysse .

See also

literature

  • Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 291
  • 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

  1. Langdysse is the name commonly used in Denmark for dolmens that lie in a rectangular or trapezoidal barn, in contrast to round dolmens or round dysers are those dolmens that lie in a round hill

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