Stone box from Viberg

The stone box of Viberg ( Danish Vibjerg Hellekiste or Lille Havelse Hellekiste ) is located southeast of Ølsted near Hillerød in Denmark . Vibjerg means in Old Norse something like “the consecrated place; up to par ”(compare Viborg ).

A typical Zeeland stone box from the late Neolithic was excavated in 1938 by CJ Becker in Vibjerg, near Ølsted in North Zealand. The approximately 3.5 meter long, untouched stone box was partially filled with earth and contained two skeletons with additions from the dagger era . The west-east oriented box consists of 17 bearing stones and was covered by five cap stones. It lies in a plowed-over hill about 14.0 m in diameter and 0.5 to 1.0 m high.

See also

• Nordic megalithic architecture
• List of stone boxes

literature

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

Web links

• Description Engl.
• Description Danish

Coordinates: 55 ° 54 '50 "  N , 12 ° 5' 15.6"  E