Ørnehøj langdysse - Vordingborg, Danmark - Megalithic Monuments on Waymarking.com

Ørnehøj Langdysse, monument fra bondestenalderen for omkring 5500 år siden. Siden Ditlev Laub malede dyssen i 1876 er der sprængt yderligere af det vældige monument, og højen er yderligere afgravet. Anlægget blev først fredet i år 1900.

Anlægget består af en fritliggende dysse, med kammer bestående af 6 sten, gang til kammeret bestående af 6 (to tærskelsten) og i alt 20 bevarede randsten.

Ørnehøj er aldrig undersøgt arkæologisk og ser i dag ud næsten som da Nationalmuseet første gang registrerede anlægget i 1876. Sammenlignet med gamle akvareltegninger udført af Nationalmuseets dygtige kunstner og arkitekt Ditlev Laub er højen dog blevet yderligere afgravet, idet dyssekammerets store bæresten på tegningerne ser ud til at stå dybere i højen end i dag. Endvidere er dækstenen over gravkammeret efterfølgende blevet forskubbet mod syd fra sin oprindelige position understøttet af alle 5 bæresten i gravkammeret. Dette er sikkert sket samtidig med den stenhugst, som graven tydeligvis også har været udsat for mellem 1876 og den frivillige fredning i år 1900. To store forarbejdede stenbjælker med tydelige kløvespor samt et stort afsprængt stykke fra dækstenen ligger besynderligt nok stadig på højbunden lige syd for kammeret. Det ser næsten ud som om at stenhuggeren er blevet taget på fersk gerning og forladt stedet uden sit produkt. På dækstenen over kammeret ses der derfor også store afspaltningsflader. Dækstenen har altså oprindelig været endnu større. Gravkammeret står således nu helt frit og det er især den ganske enorme, men reducerede dæksten som stadig vejer mellem 15 og 20 tons, der imponerer den besøgende.

Kilde: Fortidsmindeguide.dk

English: Ørnehøj Langdysse, monument from the Peasant Stone Age about 5500 years ago. Since Ditlev Laub painted the dolmen in 1876, the huge monument has been blasted further, and the mound has been further excavated. The facility was first protected in the year 1900.

The facility consists of a dolmen, with a chamber consisting of 6 stones, a passage to the chamber consisting of 6 (two threshold stones) and a total of 20 preserved curbs.

Ørnehøj has never been archaeologically examined and today looks almost like when the National Museum first registered the facility in 1876. Compared to old watercolor drawings made by the National Museum's skilled artist and architect Ditlev Laub, the mound has been further excavated, as the dolmen chamber's large supporting stone on the drawings looks to stand deeper in the mound than today. Furthermore, the paving stone above the burial chamber has subsequently been displaced to the south from its original position supported by all 5 supporting stones in the burial chamber. This probably happened at the same time as the stone cutting, which the tomb was apparently also exposed to between 1876 and the voluntary protection in the year 1900. Two large processed stone beams with clear cleavage traces and a large blasted piece from the cover stone are strangely still on the floor just south of the chamber.

It almost looks as if the stonemason has been caught red-handed and left the place without his product. On the cover stone above the chamber, large splitting surfaces can therefore also be seen. The cover stone has thus originally been even larger. The burial chamber is now completely free and it is especially the quite huge but reduced capstone which still weighs between 15 and 20 tons that impresses the visitor.

Source: Fortidsmindeguide.dk

Type: Dolmen Number: 34.00 Size: The facility consists of a dolmen, with a chamber consisting of 6 stones, a passage to the chamber consisting of 6 (two threshold stones) and a total of 20 preserved curbs. Capstone approximately 20 tons. Source: Unknown Purpose: Cult and burial Parking: Not Listed

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