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Megalithic long barrow

Dæmpegårdsdyssen

Denmark

DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE

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The Dæmpegårdsdyssen (also Kongedyssen) lies on the northern edge of the Tokkekøb Hegn, south of Frederik 7 Vej, near Lillerød and Blovstrød on North Zealand, Denmark. It was built between 3000 and 2800 BCE in the Neolithic as a monument of the Funnel Beaker culture.

It consists of two parallel dolmens of different sizes, set fairly centrally within a rectangular long bed (Danish randstenskæde) about 40 m long, one of them lying in a stone circle. It is a protected ancient monument in Denmark.

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The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.

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Dæmpegårdsdyssen

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The blocks of the stone circle are almost as large as the supports of the chamber, but considerably smaller than the boulders of the rectangular structure in the Kongedyssen.

Dæmpegårdsdyssen

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The blocks of the stone circle are almost as large as the supports of the chamber, but considerably smaller than the boulders of the rectangular structure in the Kongedyssen. The dolmen in the round stone setting is also considerably smaller. According to L. Kaelas, comparable examples probably speak for the priority of round dolmens, since it is hard to imagine that a round dolmen was built into an existing long bed. A similar finding exists in Bohuslän, where the dolmen of Haga lies in a stone circle that seems to be surrounded by a rectangular stone frame.

The smaller, south-western dolmen is separated from the other by rows of stones lying across the mound. Apart from two, all the kerbstones of the long bed are preserved.

Excavations

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In the 1860s the monument was excavated by the Danish king Frederik VII and H. C. Jørgensen. A small Neolithic axe was found during the excavation. The king, who was interested in archaeology, had taken part in excavations from an early age and organised numerous archaeological investigations, especially in Jægerspris Kommune. The king's monogram and the date 30 May 1860 are carved on the monument within a square. The letters 'LD' on the closing stone of the large chamber stand for Louise Gräfin Danner, the king's morganatic wife.