Regnershøj
The Regnershøj (also called Regnshøj Bjerre) is located at the south of the village Urhøjvej Svallerup near the main road between Kalundborg and Korsør , on the Danish island of Zealand . The passage grave ( Danish Jættestue ) was excavated around 1850 and restored in 1910, 1989 and 2004. The Regnershøj is a megalithic system of the Funnel Beaker Culture (TBK), which was built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC originated. 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. 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.
description
The oval chamber consists of 13 supporting stones and three cap stones. The corridor still has five pairs of bearing stones and four remaining cap stones. The oval mound measures approximately 30.0 × 20.0 m and is four meters high. The wall structure is two, sometimes even three rows. This means that the system is part of a group of extra-high chambers, which have their highest design in the nearby Rævehøj by Dalby with an interior height of around 2.5 m.
In 1989 it was established that Regnershøj was originally a double- aisle grave ( Danish Dobbeltjætte- or Tvillingejættestuer ). The main distribution area of this subspecies of the passage grave is the island of Zealand and the north of Jutland . The significance of the bipolar concept, which arose at the same time as other structural solutions, remains unclear. The two halves of a double system have a common partition on Zealand. (e.g. in Korshøj in Ubby, about five kilometers away ). The axes of the chambers usually form an obtuse angle and, with their long corridors, adapt to the round hills. At Regnershøj, one of the two structures was demolished a long time ago, while the other has been preserved completely intact.
During the excavation in 1850, some human bones were found in the entrance to the intact complex. What was interesting was a leg bone that had broken and grown back together. A broken leg did not mean certain death in the Neolithic. The skull was also found to be in the eastern corner, while the arm and leg bones were found in the western part of the chamber. Similar features are known from other European large stone graves.
In 2004 it was discovered that the entrance shows the tracks of an ard (ancient plow). Traces of ritual plowing on the construction site of large stone graves have already been discovered frequently.
To the south, on the other side of road 22, lies Urhøj near Gørlev .
See also
literature
- Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 246
- Torben Dehn, Svend I. Hansen, Flemming Kaul: Klekkendehøj og Jordehøj. Restaureringer og undersøgelser 1985-90 (= Stenaldergrave i Danmark. Vol. 2). Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen 2000, ISBN 87-7279-146-2 .
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.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 34 ′ 48.6 " N , 11 ° 10 ′ 34.1" E