Stone box from Sødisbakke
The Sødisbakke stone box is located southeast of the Jutland town of Mariager in Denmark near the water tower of the Sødisbakke Institute in a low wall.
The rectangular stone box is about 2.5 m long and 1 m wide. The box that is now open at the top is made of nine megaliths . There is a keystone in situ at the west end , while the one at the east end is tilted. The stone box belongs chronologically to the end of the younger stone age , which in Denmark is also known as the stone box or dagger age . As a rule, the boxes were built from flat, split stone slabs. There are also areas where boulders with a flat side were used, which is also the case here in some places. The boxes were covered with plates and covered by a pile of stones and a low mound of earth.
The grave goods corresponded to the period for which flat flint daggers are characteristic. They consisted of arrowheads from flint , a small clay pot, a rare fire utensils , tools for smoothing the arrow shafts, slate pendants and amber beads.
See also
literature
- Karen Marie Christensen: Archaeological sites and Monuments in the Mariager Area . Århus amt - Erhvervsafdelningen, Højbjerg 1994, ISBN 978-87-90099-08-4 .
- Entry in the Det Kulturhistoriske Centralregister. Retrieved November 30, 2009 (Danish).
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Coordinates: 56 ° 38 ′ 55.9 " N , 9 ° 59 ′ 35.4" E