Stone box in Sortehøj
The stone box in Sortehøj was in Thisted Kommune in Thy in northern Jutland in Denmark .
In 1875 Conrad Engelhardt (1825–1881) visited the island of Mors and was the first to describe the round burial mound. In 1912 Knud Friis Johansen (1887–1971) visited Mors and described Sortehøj , which dates from the younger Stone Age or older Bronze Age , as a hill about 16.3 m in diameter and 1.4 m high.
The excavation was carried out in 1897 by Andreas Peter Madsen (1822–1911). In the middle of the hill was a rectangular west-east oriented stone box from the older Bronze Age, period III (about 1300–1100 BC), with a length of 1.68 m, a width of 0.4 m and a height of 0.3 m. It consisted of four stones on each long side and one stone on the short ends. The box was covered with four stones. There were burned bones on the floor and a bronze sword with a handle on it. The blade was in a sheath made of wood and leather. There was a bronze fitting near the point of the sword pointing east. In the southeastern part there was an empty vessel.
See also
literature
- Jette Kjær: Antiquities from Thy. Musset for Thy og Hanherred, Thisted 1976.
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