Sømarkedyssen

Sømarkedyssen is a neolithic megalithic tomb located near Sømarke on the Danish island of Møn

Sømarkedyssen
Polygonal dolmen seen from above

Dating back to approximately 3400 BC, the tomb consists of an octagonal chamber. A big boulder serves as a capstone, supported by seven load-bearing stones. Leading to the burial chamber, the corridor is covered with a smaller boulder, supported by four stones, whose upper surface has more than 180 bowl-shaped carvings dating from the Bronze Age.[1]

  • Stendysse Sømarke
  • Sømarkedyssen

Context

A total of 119 megalithic tombs of the neolithic period are known on the 231 square kilometers of the Møn and Bogø islands, of which 38 have been conserved and protected, and 21 were from the Beaker culture which, like polygonal dolmens, emerged towards 3500-2800 BC.

See also

Bibliography
  • Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politikens bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Kopenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8, p 217.
  • Peter V. Glob: Vorzeitdenkmäler Dänemarks. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968.

References
  1. Johannes Müller: Neolithische Monumente und neolithische Gesellschaften. In: Hans-Jürgen Beier, Erich Claßen, Thomas Doppler, Britta Ramminger (Hrsg.): Varia neolithica VI. Neolithische Monumente und neolithische Gesellschaften. Beiträge der Sitzung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neolithikum während der Jahrestagung des Nordwestdeutschen Verbandes für Altertumsforschung e.V. in Schleswig, 9.–10. Oktober 2007 (= Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas. Bd. 56). Beier & Beran, Langenweißbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-941171-28-2, p 15.


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