Tokkekøb hegn afd. 43
DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Tokkekøb hegn afd. 43 is a dolmen in Allerød Municipality, Denmark. It lies at 55.8898° N, 12.3843° E.
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Where it sits in time
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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Tokkekøb hegn afd. 43
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Denmark's megalithic tombs belong to the Funnel Beaker culture of the fourth millennium BCE. They fall into two main kinds, dolmens (dysser) and the larger passage graves, with a long passage leading into a chamber. Nordic megalith architecture, the style found especially in Scandinavia and northern Germany, emerged mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE. In Scandinavia the sites are classed under general terms such as dolmens, passage graves and stone cists, in contrast with the many subtypes of the German tradition. The regional background, “Danish dolmens and passage graves (dysser and jættestuer)”, is given below.
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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Denmark are generally dated 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
Danish dolmens (dysser) belong to the Nordic megalith tradition which emerged predominantly between 3500 and 2800 BC.
Setting
130 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (4 within 1 km, 32 within 5 km), 3 of them of the same type. The site belongs to a dense concentration of monuments. In Allerød Municipality, Denmark, 2 of the 29 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Tokkekøb hegn afd. 46 (0.3 km south, megalithic mound); Tokkekøb hegn afd. 59 (0.4 km south-east, megalithic mound); Tokkekøb hegn afd. 55 (0.5 km south-west, megalithic mound); Dæmpegårdsdyssen (0.6 km north, megalithic long barrow).
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Heritage status: protected ancient monument in Denmark.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Danish dolmens and passage graves (dysser and jættestuer)
Denmark's megalithic tombs belong to the Funnel Beaker culture of the fourth millennium BCE. They fall into two main kinds, dolmens (dysser) and the larger passage graves, with a long passage leading into a chamber. Nordic megalith architecture, the style found especially in Scandinavia and northern Germany, emerged mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE. In Scandinavia the sites are classed under general terms such as dolmens, passage graves and stone cists, in contrast with the many subtypes of the German tradition.
The great passage graves show how large these tombs could be. Kong Svends Høj on the island of Lolland is a large rectangular mound surrounded by kerbstones about 1.5 metres high, among the tallest recorded in a Neolithic tomb, and covers a chamber 12.5 metres long; the gable stones are almost 4 metres high. Excavation was first attempted there in 1780. Kong Asgers Høj on Møn has a chamber 10 metres long and 2 metres wide with a passage 7.5 metres long, and it was reused for secondary burial in the Corded Ware period. In 1839 the merchant Gustav Hage opened it hoping for treasure and found it empty.
Folklore: the king's names given to these graves come from later tradition and have nothing to do with the Neolithic builders. They show how people over the centuries explained monuments they could not date.
Dating combines radiocarbon dates on bone and charcoal in the chambers, pottery and the architecture. Many dolmens have lost their mounds, leaving the stone skeleton.
When visiting, look for the kerbstones around the base, the capstone and its supports, and the passage entrance.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Nordic megalith architecture, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture, Wikipedia: Kong Svends Høj, Wikipedia: Kong Asgers Høj, Wikipedia: Dolmen · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Lore
Evidence & Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 3500–2800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in Denmark; this site has not been dated itself. Danish dolmens (dysser) belong to the Nordic megalith tradition which emerged predominantly between 3500 and 2800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Denmark
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 55°53′23″ N, 12°23′03″ EFor a GPS or map app: 55.88980, 12.38427
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tokkekøb hegn afd. 463500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tokkekøb hegn afd. 593500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tokkekøb hegn afd. 553500–500 BCE
Dæmpegårdsdyssen3500–2800 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tokkekøb hegn afd. 803500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tokkekøb hegn afd. 793500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tokkekøb Hegn3500–500 BCE
- DolmenUlykkesmose3500–2800 BCE
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