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Submitted by DrewParsons on Tuesday, 10 November 2009  Page Views: 4891

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
Country: Sweden Landskap: Skåne Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Nearest Town: Trelleborg  Nearest Village: Skegrie
Latitude: 55.409890N  Longitude: 13.094150E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by Kristerp : Snarringe dolmen (Vote or comment on this photo)
Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen/Passage Grave located 800 metres north east of the village of Skegrie. It is an unusual site in as much as it comprises two very large chambers each of which originally had its own passage.

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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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by DrewParsons : Site in Skåne Sweden: The two chambers are visible one behind the other in this photograph taken in September 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by DrewParsons : Site in Skåne Sweden: View looking into the southern chamber (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by DrewParsons : Site in Skåne Sweden: Photographed in September 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by Tonnox : Snarringe Gånggrift. Foto august 2022 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by Tonnox

Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by Tonnox : Snarringe Gånggrift. Double passage grave in mound. Reference: Fornsök, Riksantikvarieämbetet, Sweden. A lot of cupmarks. More information at the buttom of the main site. Foto august 2022.

Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by Tonnox : Snarringe Gånggrift. Foto august 2022

Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by Tonnox

Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
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Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen
Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen submitted by Tonnox

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Re: Snarringe Transitional Long Dolmen by Tonnox on Monday, 17 October 2022
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Fornsök, Riksantikvarieämbetet, Sweden
Snaringe Gånggrift, RAÄ-nummer Hammarlöv 2:1
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Snarringe Gånggrift, RAÄ-nummer Hammarlöv 2:1


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Beyond Barrows, Current research on the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments by Andy B on Wednesday, 10 August 2016
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Döserygg and Skegrie, Megalithic centres in south-west Scania, southern Sweden
By Magnus Andersson and Björn Wallebom

A paper in Beyond Barrows, Current research on the structuration and perception of the Prehistoric Landscape through Monuments
edited by David Fontijn, Arjan Louwen, Sasja van der Vaart & Karsten Wentink |
Published 2013 by Sidestone Press

Europe is dotted with tens of thousands of prehistoric barrows. In spite of their ubiquity, little is known on the role they had in pre- and protohistoric landscapes. In 2010, an international group of archaeologists came together at the conference of the European Association of Archaeologists in The Hague to discuss and review current research on this topic. This book presents the proceedings of that session.

The focus is on the prehistory of Scandinavia and the Low Countries, but also includes an excursion to huge prehistoric mounds in the southeast of North America. One contribution presents new evidence on how the immediate environment of Neolithic Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture megaliths was ordered, another one discusses the role of remarkable single and double post alignments around Bronze and Iron Age burial mounds. Zooming out, several chapters deal with the place of barrows in the broader landscape. The significance of humanly-managed heath in relation to barrow groups is discussed, and one contribution emphasizes how barrow orderings not only reflect spatial organization, but are also important as conceptual anchors structuring prehistoric perception. Other authors, dealing with Early Neolithic persistent places and with Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age urnfields, argue that we should also look beyond monumentality in order to understand long-term use of “ritual landscapes”.

The book contains an important contribution by the well-known Swedish archaeologist Tore Artelius on how Bronze Age barrows were structurally re-used by pre-Christian Vikings. This is his last article, written briefly before his death. This book is dedicated to his memory.

View the whole book online for free or get an inexpensive PDF download from Sidestone Press
https://www.sidestone.com/books/beyond-barrows
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