Elleshøj

Elleshøj, also called Ellehøj or Ellenhøj, is a passage tomb in Ellidshøj, a municipality belonging to Aalborg in Himmerland in northern Jutland. It lies among detached houses, 15 km south of Aalborg in Denmark. The large megalithic grave belongs to the Funnel Beaker culture (TBK) and is dated to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE by typological estimate.

The monument is a large polygonal dolmen aligned from northeast to southwest. Its octagonal chamber is 3,2 m long and formed from eight supporting stones topped by a capstone. The capstone projects above and in front of the round mound, whose covering has been removed. The capstone itself measures 3,45 m long, 2,2 m wide and 1,3 m high. The passage into the dolmen is 0,6 m wide.

All the stones of the entrance passage are missing. The site was restored in 1941. The nearby dolmen Stenstuen lies east of the Dolmen von Ellidshøj.

In Denmark and Sweden, the passage grave is considered the grandest form of megalithic tomb built by the Funnel Beaker culture. Such graves have a chamber beneath a mound reached through a long passage made of large stones. Monument types of this kind are characteristic of Nordic megalith architecture, which emerged mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE and also includes dolmens, long barrows and stone cists. Passage graves occur primarily in Denmark, Germany and Scandinavia, and only occasionally in France and the Netherlands.

Elleshøj is a passage tomb (passage grave) in Aalborg Municipality, Denmark. Wikidata describes it as: dolmen. A typological estimate: 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Dolmen von Ellidshøj", shown in the original language.