Trekroner Langdysse

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Trekroner Langdysse
Parallel and transverse lying

The Trekroner Langdysse is located near the edge of a forest Store Haresskov in Hareskovby in Furesø Municipality on the Danish island of Zealand . The complex was built between 3500 and 2800 BC. BC as a megalithic system of the funnel beaker culture (TBK).

description

The approximately 21.0 × 9.0 m long dyssey has a height of approximately 1.0 meters and two chambers. At the western end there is a rectangular chamber with a short corridor to the south as a transverse bed in the giant bed . The preserved part of the chamber consists of the two large side stones and an end stone of a dolmen and measures approximately 2.5 × 1.75 meters. The interior height is 1.2 meters. The other chamber measures about 1.5 × 1.5 meters and is bordered by two side stones in the west, one side stone in the east and an end stone in the south. A total of 15 stones from the edge stones of the hill have been preserved, which are left as remnants on all four sides. Most of it, however, has gone out.

In one chamber, preserved but incomplete bones of five adults and five children were found, dating back to 3280 BC. Were dated.

See also

literature

  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politikens bog om Danmarks oldtid (= Politikens håndbøger ). Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. Langdysser is the name commonly used in Denmark for dolmens that lie in a rectangular or trapezoidal barn bed, in contrast to that, Runddysser are those dolmens that lie in a round hill

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Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 38.6 ″  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 51 ″  E