Long hill and passage grave on the Havermose
Long hill and passage grave at Havermose , which the bearers of the funnel cup culture (TBK) built in the Neolithic Age (3500–2800 BC), are located east of the Havermose moor , about 3.5 km southwest of Fårup on Hammershøjvej, in the Danish municipality of Randers . 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.
The long hill
The eastern one is the "Haversdås" (dt. Haverdolmen) an east-west located, about 100 m long, 15 m wide and up to 2.5 m high long hill from the early Neolithic . The hill is particularly worn at the eastern end. Some of the stones could have come from a damaged megalithic complex in the hill. The surface shows several depressions, which probably contain collapsed or looted facilities. In the early Neolithic Age, mounds of earth were also built that contained wooden or stone constructions. The megalithic bed made of large curbs is only partially preserved in the west and north.
Similar long hills can be found at Rude Strand , in Hørret Skov and at Givehøje .
The legend
Haversdås is part of a tragic legend. A King Have lived on Haversdås, and a second lived on the other side of the moor, by Havershøj, a kilometer away. Both of them forbade their children contact, as they had already been promised. That is why the royal children met secretly at night when the girl put up a light in the moor. One night the lights went out and the boy drowned in the moor. Since then, a chirping bird has been sitting on the stones of Haversdås.
The passage grave
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. The western complex is a well-preserved passage grave in a hill. The capstones of the corridor of the complex located in the mound are completely missing. Of the very small north-west-south-east facing chamber, the northern of the two capstones is missing. The southern one carries five small bowls , which were probably made in the Bronze Age .
There are also seven bearing stones in the chamber and three in the corridor . The intermediate masonry made of flat stone slabs has been partially preserved. Because of its pear-shaped chamber, the passage grave is a rare early form of the type that typically has a larger, rectangular or trapezoidal chamber. The chamber has not yet been examined archaeologically.
Amber depot
At Læsten, the largest find of an amber hoard from ancient Danish times was made while cutting peat in 1837 . It consisted of about 4,100 pieces ( amber slide , pearls and raw amber), weighed 8.5 kg and was probably buried in a wooden vessel about a meter deep in the damp ground.
literature
- Ingrid Falktoft Andersen: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid. 2nd Edition. Gads Forlag, Århus 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 152.
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.
- ↑ Manfred Rech: Studies on deposit finds of the funnel cup and single grave culture of the north (= investigations from the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum for Pre- and Early History in Schleswig, the State Office for Pre- and Early History of Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig and the Institute for Prehistory and early history at the University of Kiel. Vol. 39 = Offa-Bücher. NF Vol. 39). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979, ISBN 3-529-01139-8 , p. 129, (at the same time: Frankfurt am Main, dissertation, 1973).
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Coordinates: 56 ° 31 ′ 27.8 " N , 9 ° 47 ′ 41.5" E