Runddysse from Stursbøl

The Runddysse von Stursbøl (also Runddysse 1 von Stursbøl), restored in 1956, is located in an oval mound south of the Stursbøl Plantation, near Øster Lindevej, northeast of Mojbøl near Haderslev in the Syddanmark region, in Jutland in Denmark . It is one between 3500 and 2800 BC. Megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK) that was created in BC .

The approximately 2.8 m high oval hill of 19.0 by 15.0 m covers a rectangular chamber made of five bearing stones (1 in the northeast, 2 each in the northwest and southeast) and a large capstone. A corridor that is only covered at the end leads from the southwest into the chamber of the well-preserved passage grave . The bearing stones fit together almost without any intermediate masonry.

Nearby are the Stursbøl Kæmpeknolde, the Runddysse Stursbøl 2 and the Langdysse Stursbøl.

• Runddysse from Stursbøl
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  External access

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  End stone

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  Access from the inside with steel support

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  Intermediate masonry

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• Great stone graves in Denmark

literature

• Karsten Kristiansen: Poskær Stenhus - Danmarks største runddysse. online (PDF; 966.54 KB) .
• Jakob Vedsted: Fortidsminder og Kulturlandskab. En kildekritisk analysis af tragtbaegerkulturens found material from Norddjursland. Forlaget Skippershoved, Ebeltoft 1986, ISBN 87-981329-5-4 .

Web links

Commons : Jættestue ved Stursbøl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description Engl. and picture

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Runddysse is the name commonly used in Denmark for dolmens that are located in a round hill. In contrast, Langdysser are those dolmens that lie in a rectangular or trapezoidal barn bed

Coordinates: 55 ° 19 ′ 6.9 ″  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 19.2 ″  E