Mangehøje
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The ten burial mounds of Mangehøje are located in the Ågeslund Plantation north of Grindsted in Jutland in Denmark .
They represent a burial ground of the Neolithic individual grave culture (EGK - 2800 to 2400 BC - Danish grandchildren grave culture ). In Denmark 8,846 small burial mounds (mostly in Jutland) have been preserved. The Mangehøje ( German for "many hills" ) are only a small part of the thousands of low burial mounds that the people of the individual burial culture built, especially in Jutland. In Central Jutland they were in groups that could encompass several hundred hills. Similar figures have also been documented for northern Germany. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there are 4978 individual mounds and 81 burial mounds with around 1274 burial mounds.
There is a development in grave goods , which consist in particular of battle axes made of various stones and cup-shaped, usually sparsely decorated ceramics. In Jutland, three phases can be distinguished: In the time of the burial the graves are deepened, in the time of the burial ground they are at ground level and in the time of the burial above ground level. Frequent reburials allow horizontal stratigraphic statements. Certain types of battle axes can be assigned to the phases , the division of which into twelve types was applied by PV Glob in 1944 to the entire field of corded ceramics . The grave mounds of culture range from small mounds only 0.5 to 1.0 meters high to 2.0 to 3.0 meters high and around 15.0 meters in diameter. In the larger hills there are usually several burial phases and construction phases. The burials took place one above the other, with the mounds being enlarged.
When the hills were built, the landscape in central and west Jutland was more open, with extensive heathland and deciduous forests. Many of the mounds have never been archaeologically examined, but some have been looted. Mangehøje was protected by an agreement between the National Museum and the owner in 1896 - seven years after the Grindsted Plantation was founded. This was secured with the Nature Conservation Act of 1937, which placed all visible burial mounds under protection.
See also
literature
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid . Copenhagen 2002 ISBN 87-567-6458-8 , p. 114
- Elisabeth Munksgaard : Denmark: An archaeological Guide Faber London 1970 p. 50 ISBN 0-571-09196-2
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Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ′ 37.5 ″ N , 8 ° 55 ′ 18.9 ″ E
