Hesthøj jættestue - Martofte, Denmark
N 55° 33.088 E 010° 40.230
32U E 605383 N 6157427
Hesthøj jættestue er en neolitisk fællesgrav opført i yngre stenalder for omkring 3000 f.kr. Gravkammeret består af 22 bæresten og 8 dæksten over kammeret. Jættestuen er undersøgt arkæologisk 2 gange. I 1880'erne af lokale og Nationalmusset i 1934.
Waymark Code: WM15GB0
Location: Denmark
Date Posted: 01/02/2022
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Hesthøj jættestue er en neolitisk fællesgrav opført i yngre stenalder for omkring 3000 f.kr. Gravkammeret består af 22 bæresten og 8 dæksten over kammeret. Jættestuen er undersøgt arkæologisk 2 gange. I 1880'erne af lokale og Nationalmusset i 1934.
Da bønderne udgravede Hestehøj - som også kaldes Esterhøj - fandt de knoglerne af cirka 10 personer i gravkammeret. Desuden fandt de lerkar og flintredskaber. I 1934 udgravede konservator Gustav Rosenberg igen højen. Man antog, at kammeret var omkring tre meter langt, men det viste sig, at bærestenen i den sydvestlige ende var en nedskreden dæksten, der dækkede over et berørt gravlag. Rosenberg fandt her lerkarskår, økser, ravperler, flækker og andre stenalderredskaber lagt i graven som ofre til forfædrenes ånder.
Der er adgang til jættestuen ad trampestien hele året rundt.
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English: Hesthøj burial ground is a Neolithic passagegrave built in the Neolithic period around 3000 BC. The burial chamber consists of 22 supporting stones and 8 cover stones above the chamber. The burial chamber has been examined twice. In the 1880s by locals and the Nationalmussets Gustav Rosenberg in 1934.
When the farmers excavated Hestehøj - which is also called Esterhøj - they found the bones of about 10 people in the burial chamber. In addition, they found pottery and flint tools. In 1934, curator Rosenberg again excavated the mound. It was assumed that the chamber was about three meters long, but it turned out that the supporting stone at the southwestern end was a tapered cover that covered an affected burial layer. Rosenberg found here pottery shards, axes, amber beads, cracks and other Stone Age tools laid in the grave as sacrifices to the spirits of the ancestors.
There is access to the passage grave along the footpath all year round.
Type: Dolmen
Number: 30.00
Size:
Burial chamber approximately 5 meters long. Short passage to the east.
Source:
Unknown
Purpose:
Burial and cult
Parking: Not Listed
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