Stenhøj (Tolne)

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The northeast-southwest-oriented Stenhøj is a protected Langdysse, 400 m north of Tolne Kirkeby. In the Sindal municipality, between Hjørring and Frederikshavn in Vendsyssel in North Jutland in Denmark . It dates from the Neolithic Age around 3500–2800 BC. And is a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK). Another Stenhøj is by the Horsensfjord.

Before the restoration of the approximately 35.0 m long, 7.0 m wide and 1.0 m high megalithic bed of Stenhøj, a small excavation was carried out, with the aim of the investigations in the one chamber lying about in the middle of the underground in a pit was. Such a construction has not been encountered in connection with dolmen chambers in long hills. The mound of homogeneous sand with no recognizable peat structure was badly eroded. 19 sizeable curb stones (about half the previous number) have been partially preserved in situ . The extent of the megalithic bed was determined by the footprints of the stones.

Chamber and passage

The approximately centrally located chamber had been disturbed by stone robbery. Traces of distant chamber and passage stones were found (including the capstone), which, together with the remaining stones, show a rectangular floor plan with two stones on both long sides and one stone as the rear wall of the chamber. The disruption has removed all traces of the original floor. No threshold stone could be detected. The internal dimensions of the chamber can be given as approximately 2.7 × 1.25 m. The chamber had a short corridor made of two stones. The heights of the gangway stone and the northern stone of the chamber were 1.59 and 2.12 m, respectively. Outside the chamber there were partially intact stone seals. A section through this and the ground levels of the chamber, gangue and curb stones of the hill shows that the chamber was placed in a construction pit up to 0.83 m deep.

During investigations outside the curbs in 1972, remains of 50 vessels were found in the area south of the facility. South-east of curb no. 19 and below was a pit with a diameter of 1.25 m and a depth of about 0.8 m in the underground. At the northeast end of the megalithic bed was a round border with two layers of stone. There was a burn mark in the upper one and an urn cremation in the lower one.

Finds and dating

During the excavation of 1838, three arrowheads from the dagger era , four amber beads and a brain shell were found in the chamber . The construction of the chamber cannot be dated based on the finds. It is a rectangular dolmen that can be dated to the end of the Early Neolithic or the beginning of the Middle Neolithic 3900-3200. The sunk excavation can be seen as an expression of an early construction technique. The structure is known from Jutland and Northern Germany.

See also

literature

  • Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , p. 199

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Langdysse is the name for dolmens in Denmark, which are located in a rectangular or trapezoidal barn bed , in contrast to this, Runddysser are those dolmens that are located in a round hill.

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