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<< Our Photo Pages >> Hög Passage Grave - Passage Grave in Sweden in Skåne

Submitted by DrewParsons on Monday, 09 November 2009  Page Views: 6280

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hög Passage Grave
Country: Sweden
NOTE: This site is 11.361 km away from the location you searched for.

Landskap: Skåne Type: Passage Grave
Nearest Town: Lund  Nearest Village: Kävlinge
Latitude: 55.778650N  Longitude: 13.070260E
Condition:
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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
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5 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
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Hög Passage Grave
Hög Passage Grave submitted by DrewParsons : Note the fine lintel on the passage entrance (Vote or comment on this photo)
At 16 metres across and 1.7 metres high this is an impressive tomb with its mound still completely enclosing both the chamber and the 5.5 metre long east south east facing passage. The passage becomes higher and wider as one approaches the chamber passing two internal doorway slabs along the way. There are seven uprights on each side of the passage and 5 capstones over the passage. The large chamber is 4.5 metres long, 1.8 metres high and 1.7 metres broad. There is drystone walling in the chamber between the ten uprights over which 2 capstones preside.

When excavated in 1919 it was found that a Bronze Age barrow had been built on the site covering the neolithic burial chamber. The passage produced axes, amber beads, flint blades and some Middle Neolithic pot sherds and some Late Neolithic material together with fragments of burnt human bone. Inside the chamber similar burnt fragments of human bone and some amber beads were found. Outside the passageway 60 flint blades and a flint axe had been deposited whilst a large number of pot sherds were found. In Sweden these pot sherds are considered to be offerings left at the passage entrance rather than the contents of the chamber being swept clear by later users of the tomb.

The tomb was further excavated and restored in 1966 when more pot sherds and burnt bone were found outside the passage entrance.

The passage grave is located behind a farm house where I met the very friendly owner and his grandson, they taking me into the chamber and then afterwards showing me the excavation reports and documents which they kept at their farm house. The farmhouse and lane to the west of it is opposite the side lane running down to Ellbo on the Löddeköpinge to Kävlinge road. There is a larger Bronze Age barrow 200 metres to the north east of this site.

The finds from the excavations are in the Lunds Universitets Historiska Museum in Lund. I used the Swedish Terrängkarten 1:50 000 map number 504 Landskrona to locate the site which I visited in September 2009, and gleaned the above information from the farmer and by reference to the excellent guide to this region: "The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden An Introduction and Guide" by C Tilley, Institute of Archaeology University of London, London, 1999

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Hög Passage Grave submitted by DrewParsons : The farmer and his grandson in front of the mound. Photographed in late September 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Hög Passage Grave submitted by DrewParsons : The long passage looking out. September 2009 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hög Passage Grave
Hög Passage Grave submitted by DrewParsons : The huge uprights with drystone walling between them. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hög Passage Grave
Hög Passage Grave submitted by DrewParsons : The passage showing the two doorway partitions part way down it. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hög Passage Grave
Hög Passage Grave submitted by DrewParsons : The mound viewed from the back of the farm on whose land it stands. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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