Møllegårdsmarken
Møllegårdsmarken is an Iron Age burial ground between Gudme and Gammel Lundeborg in the southeast of Funen in Denmark .
With 2,270 graves from the first century BC Denmark's largest burial ground until shortly after AD 400 was excavated between 1875 and 1881 by Frederik Sehested (1813–1882), which continued from 1959 to 1966 and from 1988 to 1993. Mostly cremation graves have been found. The incendiary grave 2118 belongs because of the knife and the lance tip to the small number of Danish "arms graves" that occur between the late second to the late fourth century AD. The knife bears a runic inscription . Huts for the dead have been found along the paths in the burial ground. Møllegårdsmarken has the largest number of finds of Roman imports in one place in the north.
East of Møllegårdsmarken, in Nyhaveskove (forest), there are two passage graves, one of which was excavated and described in 1875 by NFB Sehested (1813–1882). It has an almost perfect octagonal plan and is an intermediate link between a polygonal pole and a passage grave, as it has entered the literature.
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literature
- Jørgen Christoffersen: Møllegårdsmarken - structure and occupancy of a burial ground. In: Frühmedalterliche Studien 21, 1987, pp. 85-100.
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 151
Coordinates: 55 ° 9 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 10 ° 44 ′ 26.6 ″ E