Langdyssen from Harreby
The Langdyssen of Harreby are about 200 m west of the road, south of the village Harreby , on a ridge east of Ribe in West Jutland in Denmark . They were first excavated in the 1930s, but it was not until the excavations in 1982/1983 and 1990 that the arrangement of the Langdysser and its dolmens was revealed. They are lying in a flat field together with a stone box and the remains of other graves.
Dolmens were built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as megalithic systems of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). This is shown by artifacts , including shards of pottery on the north hill and ceramics and axes made of flint on the south and east hills.
description
In Harreby there are three giant beds with dolmens . Two are parallel to each other, the third immediately to the east of it. Only a few megalithic complexes are arranged as parallel long hills, including Harreby and the like. a. Blommeskobbel , Østergårds Mark, Oleskobbel (with the special feature of the common border in the middle), Stengade and the recently excavated Frydenlund I.
The shape of the long dolmen at Harreby is unusual in that their contours are trapezoidal. How high the 34.0 and 53.0 meter long hills once protruded from the terrain is difficult to say due to the leveling of the ground through plowing over and erosion. But they were probably less than half an inch tall. All three have a chamber near the western (wider) end. Hill I only has this one, Hill II has two and Hill III has three more chambers.
See also
literature
- Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 p. 86
Individual evidence
- ↑ Langdysser is the name commonly used in Denmark for dolmens that lie in a rectangular or trapezoidal barn bed , in contrast to that, Runddysser are those dolmens that lie in a round hill.
Web links
- Langdysse 1 (engl.)
- Langdysse 2 (engl.)
- stengrave - Gram description dän. and pictures
- Description Danish and pictures
Coordinates: 55 ° 19 '34.2 " N , 8 ° 55' 46.1" E