Dolmen von Rødtangen
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Der Dolmen von Rødtangen (auch Bråtan genannt) liegt meernah in der Kommune Asker der Provinz Akershus in Norwegen. Funde, darunter Scherben bekannter Keramiktypen, datieren die Anlage in die mittlere Phase der Trichterbecherkultur (TBK). Aber auch Abschläge von Feuerstein sowie Schieferobjekte, die lokale Einflüsse spiegeln, wurden gefunden.
Der Dolmen hat große Ähnlichkeit mit dem schwedischen Dolmen von Haga. Er besteht heute aus zwei höheren und zwei abgeschlagenen Steinplatten, die ein unregelmäßiges Quadrat bilden. Der Deckstein ist ausgegangen. Ein Ring aus kleineren Steinen kennzeichnet die äußeren Grenzen des Hügels, der ursprünglich den Dolmen bedeckte. Zwei lange Steine markieren den Zugang. Der Dolmen wurde ausgegraben, aber es wurden nur einige Feuersteinstücke gefunden. In einem anderen, ausgegangenen Dolmen, der in der Nähe lag, wurden Bernsteinperlen, einige Pfeilspitzen und Keramik gefunden. Überreste von Keramik sind auch im Dolmen von Skjeltorp in Østfold gefunden worden.
Rødtangen ist einer von nur fünf Dolmen in Norwegen, die alle nahe der Grenze zu Schweden liegen. Vier von ihnen lagen in der ehemaligen Provinz Buskerud, aber nur zwei sind erhalten. Rødtangen ist der einzige Dolmen, der noch an seinem ursprünglichen Platz steht.
Die nahegelegene Gravrøys von Rødtangen hat einen Durchmesser von 15 bis 20 m und eine Höhe zwischen 2 und 3 m. In der Mitte kann man die freigelegte und geöffnete Steinkiste sehen. Das Grab ist nicht datiert, aber auf der Grundlage anderer Hügelgräber in der Umgebung vermutet man eine Entstehung in der Bronze- oder älteren Eisenzeit.
In der Nähe liegen die Rösen von Røysene.
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The Dolmen von Rødtangen, also called Bråtan, lies near the sea in the municipality of Asker, Akershus province, Norway. Finds including sherds of known ceramic types date the site to the middle phase of the Trichterbecherkultur (TBK). Flint flakes and slate objects showing local influences were also recovered.
Today, the monument consists of two taller upright stones and two broken stone slabs forming an irregular square. Its capstone is missing. A ring of smaller stones marks the outer boundary of the mound that originally covered the dolmen, while two long stones indicate the entrance. The site was excavated, but only a few flint pieces were found.
Rødtangen is one of only five dolmens in Norway, all close to the Swedish border. Four were in the former province of Buskerud, but only two survive. Rødtangen is the only one still standing in its original location. It closely resembles the Swedish Dolmen of Haga.
Nearby is the Gravrøys von Rødtangen, measuring 15 to 20 m across and 2 to 3 m high. An exposed, opened stone coffin can be seen at its centre. The grave is undated, but comparable mound graves nearby are thought to date from the Bronze Age or the earlier Iron Age. The Rösen von Røysene are also close by.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Dolmen von Rødtangen", shown in the original language.
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Dolmen von Rødtangen is a dolmen in Sweden. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Dolmen von Rødtangen", shown in the original language.
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-07) from the cited Wikipedia article “Dolmen von Rødtangen”, translated from German. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Swedish dolmens and passage graves (dösar and gånggrifter)
Sweden's megalithic tombs, called dösar (dolmens) and gånggrifter (passage graves), belong to the Funnel Beaker culture. That culture ranged from the Elbe in Germany to southern Scandinavia, as far north as Uppland in Sweden and the Oslofjord in Norway. Nordic megalith architecture, the style found across Scandinavia and northern Germany, emerged mainly between 3500 and 2800 BCE. In Scandinavia the sites are classed as dolmens, passage graves and stone cists, with fewer subtypes than in Germany.
The area around Falköping in Västergötland, called Falbygden, is known for its megalithic culture, One passage grave in Sweden, Frälsegården, has given an unusually vivid picture of the people. Genetic analysis of several dozen individuals buried in it suggests a patrilineal social organisation: the vast majority of the men descended from a single male ancestor, while the women were mostly unrelated and probably married into the family. In other words, a passage grave was a family tomb used over generations, not a mass grave.
The same farmers left other offerings. Virtually all of the 10,000 or so flint axes of this culture found in Sweden were probably sacrificed in water, in streams and lakes near the farmland.
Dolmens commonly lose their covering mounds, leaving only the stone skeleton of a chamber and a capstone. Dating rests on the typology of the tomb and on dates from excavated material.
When visiting, look for the long axis of the chamber and its passage, for the kerbstones that held the mound, and for other prehistoric remains nearby.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Falbygden, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture, Wikipedia: Nordic megalith architecture, Wikipedia: Dolmen · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- 59°32′07″ N, 10°24′57″ EFor a GPS or map app: 59.53523, 10.41570
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