Lauri
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Overview
Lauri is a dolmen in Rauma, Finland. It lies at 61.0826° N, 21.6248° E.
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Lauri
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A dolmen is a single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually made of two or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone, or table. Most date from the Late Neolithic period, 4000 to 3000 BCE, and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus. In many dolmens the covering has eroded away, leaving only the stone skeleton. The word entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne used it to describe megalithic tombs in his book of 1796. The regional background, “Dolmens”, is given below.
Dating
No date has been published for this site.
Setting
124 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (7 within 1 km, 45 within 5 km), 1 of them of the same type. The site belongs to a dense concentration of monuments. In Rauma, Finland, 2 of the 124 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Kylmäkorvenkallio (0.2 km south-west, dolmen); Ketunnummi 2 (0.3 km north-east, megalithic mound); Ketunnummi (0.3 km north, megalithic mound); Kylänpää (0.4 km south-west, megalithic mound).
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Heritage status: registered archaeological site in Finland.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Dolmens
A dolmen is a single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually made of two or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone, or table. Most date from the Late Neolithic period, 4000 to 3000 BCE, and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus. In many dolmens the covering has eroded away, leaving only the stone skeleton. The word entered archaeology when Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne used it to describe megalithic tombs in his book of 1796.
Dolmens go by many names. In Portuguese and Galician they are antas, in Dutch hunebedden, in Danish dysser, in Swedish dösar, in Basque trikuharri, in Welsh cromlechau, in Cornwall quoits, and in Korean goindol, "propped stone". In Catalan-speaking areas folk names include cova (cave), caixa (crate or coffin), taula (table), arca (chest) and cabana (hut). The German Hünengrab and Dutch hunebed carry the word Hüne, "giant", and evoke giants buried there; that is an old explanation for monuments too large for ordinary people, and it is folklore, not evidence.
They are found in Europe, the Caucasus, the Levant, Korea and India. They are not all of one age or culture. In Europe most belong to the Neolithic, but in the Levant they are of the Early Bronze Age and in Korea they were built from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. The Levantine tradition is a different, unrelated one from that of Europe.
The Atlas uses this article for dolmens in countries that do not have their own article, such as Switzerland and Belgium. Dating is by typology, with absolute dates available only where a tomb has been excavated.
When visiting, look for the capstone and its supports, for traces of a mound or kerb around them, and for the direction in which the entrance faces.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Dolmen, Wikipedia: Portal dolmen, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Where it stands
Finland
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- Coordinates
- 61°04′57″ N, 21°37′29″ EFor a GPS or map app: 61.08255, 21.62478
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
Kylmäkorvenkallio- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Ketunnummi 22000–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Ketunnummi2000–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kylänpää2000–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kylänpää2000–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kestilä2000–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Uusitalo2000–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kulju2000–500 BCE
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Around this place
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