Limensgård

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The living space Limensgård is a settlement with mid- and late Neolithic finds home on a creek in the south of the Danish island of Bornholm used that (about 4000 to 1700 v. Chr.) During three different sections and was excavated 1983-1989.

The best preserved are the remains of 14 longhouses from the Sennepolitum (around 2350–1700 BC). The largest has a length of about 44.0 m. A settlement and tombs from the Iron Age were also found on site. The finds can be seen in the Bornholms Museum in Rønne .

literature

  • Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 340
  • Poul Otto Nielsen: Limensgård and Grødbygård. Settlements with house remains from the Early, Middle and Late Neolithic on Bornholm. In: Charlotte Fabech, Jytte Ringtved (Ed.): Settlement and landscape. Proceedings of a conference in Århus, Denmark, may 4-7, 1998. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Aarhus 1999, ISBN 87-7288-595-5 , pp. 149-163.

Coordinates: 55 ° 2 ′ 50.8 ″  N , 14 ° 54 ′ 14.9 ″  E