Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)The Copper Age
Afd.137
DatedEst. 3500–500 BCE
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About this site
Overview
Afd.137, also called Uggeløse Skov Afd.137, is a megalithic round mound in the parish of Uggeløse, Allerød Municipality, Denmark. It is attributed to the northern group of the Funnel Beaker culture, and the catalogue dates it by typological estimate to between 3500 and 500 BCE.
Only the footprint of the burial chamber survives, as a pit in the centre of the low mound.
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The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Afd.137
The tomb lies west of Lynge in the north of the woodland Uggeløse Skov, directly east of a forest track.
SettingSources for this section
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The tomb lies west of Lynge in the north of the woodland Uggeløse Skov, directly east of a forest track. Numerous other megalithic tombs stand, or once stood, in the immediate surroundings.
DescriptionSources for this section
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The round mound has a diameter of between 6 m and 7 m and a preserved height of between 0.2 m and 0.3 m. Four stones of the kerb survive. The mound is heavily mixed with flint grit.
In the centre are the remains of a chamber, probably oriented north-west to south-east, which appears as a pit 5 m long and 2 m wide. A single stone, possibly a side stone, remains in the north, and west of it lie the remains of a stone floor paving. A stone 1.5 m long, 1 m wide and 0.7 m thick lies 2 m farther west; it is presumably a displaced capstone.
Research historySources for this section
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The site was documented by staff of the Danish National Museum in 1890 and 1982.
ContextSources for this section
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Denmark has a very large number of surviving barrows, protected by law since 1937. The oldest belong to the Funnel Beaker culture of the fourth millennium BCE, while the great majority of the round mounds are younger, many dating to the Nordic Bronze Age, from about 1700 to 500 BCE.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Danish barrows (gravhøje)
Denmark has a very large number of surviving barrows, protected by law since 1937, and the Atlas draws most of its Danish mounds from the national register of monuments. The oldest belong to the Funnel Beaker culture of the fourth millennium BCE, whose long barrows and stone-chambered tombs are described in their own articles. The great majority of the round mounds are younger. Many were raised in the Nordic Bronze Age, from about 1700 to 500 BCE.
The Bronze Age barrows hold remarkable burials. In a number of them, oak coffins stayed sealed and waterlogged, so that wool clothing, hair and textiles survived; only the bones of the dead are gone. The Egtved Girl, a young woman buried beneath the mound Storehøj in a woollen blouse and corded skirt with a bronze belt plate, is the best-known case: tree rings in her oak coffin date the burial to the summer of 1370 BCE. Borum Eshøj gave similar finds from the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries BCE. Later in the Bronze Age cremation took over from inhumation, and the dead were buried in urns.
Mound-building did not stop with the Bronze Age: Danish round barrows were raised from the Neolithic to the Viking Age.
When visiting, look for flat tops where old diggers cut in, and for the hollows where kerb stones were once removed.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Tumulus, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture, Wikipedia: Nordic Bronze Age, Wikipedia: Egtved Girl, Wikipedia: Borum Eshøj, Wikipedia: Jelling · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dated moments in the story
- 1890
In den Jahren 1890 und 1982 führten Mitarbeiter des Dänischen Nationalmuseums Dokumentationen der Fundstelle durch.
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 3500–500 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic mounds in Denmark; this site has not been dated itself. Denmark has about 20,000 preserved tumuli with the oldest around 5,000 years old; the Neolithic examples are Nordic megalithic mounds (dysser) of c. 3500-2800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Denmark
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 55°50′35″ N, 12°14′12″ EFor a GPS or map app: 55.84313, 12.23664
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
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- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Krogenlund3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kjeldsholmgård3500–500 BCE
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- 01Wikidata Q30147031wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Großsteingrab Uggeløse Skov Afd.137" (German), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; authors are listed in the page history. Reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read on Wikipedia · Edit history and authors