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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Snarringe Transitional Long DolmenCountry: Sweden Landskap: Skåne Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Trelleborg Nearest Village: Skegrie
Latitude: 55.409890N Longitude: 13.094150E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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According to Professor Christopher Tilley, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at University College London, it is a transitional format between a dolmen and a passage grave. The chambers are a metre apart, the northern 3 metres by 2.2 metres and 1.7 metres high, the southern 2 metres square and 1.5 metres high. The northern chamber's 2 metre passage unusually faces north east whilst the southern chamber's passage has disappeared. There are hundreds of cup marks on the two chamber capstones. When I visited the site it was confined to a small space with the mound ploughed away over the years.
In the mid 19th century a skeleton, an axe, human bone fragments and pot sherds dated from somewhere between 3500 BC to 2700 BC were found in the northern chamber. The southern chamber yielded bone fragments, an amber bead, flint blades, a slate grinding stone, pot sherds and a Middle Neolithic pot. These finds are in the Statens Historiska Museum in Stockholm.
The site is accessed along a farm track and then behind the farm buildings where a small, friendly dog welcomed me on my visit in September 2009. I used the Swedish Terrängkarten 1:50 000 map number 501 Malmö to locate the site.
References:
Tilley C. 1999 The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden An Introduction and Guide, London, Institute of Archaeology University of London.
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