Stone box from Ramløse Bakke

The stone box of Ramløse Bakke is located near the Arresø, in Gribskov Municipality , southeast of the town Ramløse in Helsinge in the north of the Danish island of Zealand . The stone box ( Danish light box ) was created between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a large stone grave of the funnel cup culture (TBK).

The west-east-oriented box is over 3.2 m long, 1.2 m wide and 0.4 m deep and measures 0.7 m including the three-part cover stone. It consists of small stones on the long sides and one end stone each. The stone box lies on a large hill in a garden and is endangered by a burrow.

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• List of stone boxes

literature

• Ingrid Falktoft Andersen: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . Wormianum, Højbjerg 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 .

Web links

• Description Danish

Coordinates: 56 ° 0 ′ 9.2 "  N , 12 ° 7 ′ 54.4"  E