Lindeskov Dyssekammer

Date Added: 9th Apr 2011
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: Denmark (Fyn, Langeland and Islands)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5

Log Text: None

Magelund Dyssen (Modern)

Date Added: 9th Apr 2011
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc Country: Denmark (Fyn, Langeland and Islands)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5

Log Text: None

Lindeskov Langdysse

Date Added: 9th Apr 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Fyn, Langeland and Islands)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5

Log Text: There is a Parking area and table with benches and folders available in Danish, English and German languages.

Lindeskov Jættestue

Date Added: 9th Apr 2011
Site Type: Passage Grave Country: Denmark (Fyn, Langeland and Islands)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2

Log Text: On cultivated private land -protected site but no public Access

Lindeskov Jættestue

Date Added: 9th Apr 2011
Site Type: Passage Grave Country: Denmark (Fyn, Langeland and Islands)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2

Log Text: On cultivated private land -protected site bu no public Access

Slagelse Kongedyssen

Date Added: 7th Apr 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Sjælland)
Visited: Yes on 6th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5

Log Text: In my opinion some the stones here seems also to have had ritual/cult purposes.

Kong Svends Høj 2

Date Added: 5th Apr 2011
Site Type: Round Barrow(s) Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5

Log Text: None

Store Rørbæk By Langdysse

Date Added: 5th Apr 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: None

Store Rørbæk By Jættestue

Date Added: 5th Apr 2011
Site Type: Passage Grave Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: This, Møllehøjen is similar to Stuehøj in ØlsTykke, but it isn't as well trimmed and conserved as Stoehøj is. I didn't enter the chamber because I wasn't dressed to that.

Stuehøj Jættestue

Date Added: 5th Apr 2011
Site Type: Passage Grave Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 5th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5

Log Text: A very nice Barrow/Jættestue within minutes of walking from the nearest S-Train station. This is very close to be in the middle of town.

Kongedyssen Langdysse

Date Added: 26th Mar 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 26th Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3

Log Text: When approaching this site from Allerød via the woods it's a magnificent sight to spot from the woods. This Long Barrow was excavated by the last of the totalitarian Danish Kings and the last successor of the old Oldenburger Royal Line.

The mother to King Frederk VII was the Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. She had an affair with the French singer and compositor Edouard Du Poy. For this reason, her husband, the King Christian VIII, divorced her in 1810 and prohibited her to see her son again. The next many years of his mothers life she was kept prisoner at a Palace in Horsens where a tiny court were held for her, and where she had various affairs with local officers. In 1830, Charlotte Frederica was allowed to go in exile in Italy, living then in Rome. She would later convert to the Catholic persuation. Charlotte Frederica died in 1840. Her earthly remains are nowadays in the Vatican.

Even if King Frederik VII didn't have contact with his mother, he also had several affairs in his life. The greatest love of his life was the commoner and former ballet dancer, Louise Rasmussen that was made Countess and given the name Louise Danner. This relationship seems to have been happy although it aroused great social indignation among the nobility and the bourgeoisie. Countess Danner, who was denounced a vulgar gold-digger by her enemies, but a doughty and unaffected “daughter of the people” by her admirers, seems to have had a stabilizing effect on the King. She also worked at maintaining his popularity by letting him “meet the people” of the provinces.

When excavating the magnificent "Dæmpegårdsdysse" he made or had made two pieces of long lasting grafitties. One with this own name and the date 30-5 1860, and the other in the form of the letters L D (Louise Danner).

Halskov Vænge Helleristningssten

Date Added: 25th Mar 2011
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature Country: Denmark (Møn + Lolland-Falster)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: It looks to me as if this big natural stone - 3 m width 2 m high - has many carvings on it, that unfortunately appears to be rather washed out. In a few spots there still is traces of red paint inside cupmarks, that gives me the impression that the Helleristninger in a recent time probably has been painted red in order for them to be visible to the ordinary visitors to this area.

If the carvings in the stone are bona fide carvings from prehistoric time it certainly could be great if this magnificent stone again could have its carvings painted by an expert in such matters.

Apparently this big stone - like so many other big stones - has been examined to test if it in fact is a stone or if it more sensationally and unlikely should turn out to be the tip of a Danish bedrock.

In order to test if it really is a stone they excavate one of the sides to check if the side eventually reach a point where it starts to slope inwards. When such a point is reached it has been scientifically established that it is in fact a stone.

In an official description this stone is called "Spejder-Stenen" (The Scout Stone) and allegedly it's the largest stone at Falster. The stone came here with the glacier some 15000 years ago. On the westside of the stone two small cupmarks are present. This is believed to have been of cult significance in the bronze age.

In my opinion there are more cult carvings on the stone than the two officially recognized cupmarks.

I found a photo of this stone on the internet, that shows how big it is in comparison with a boy: http://www.24.dk/image/3448373/450x540?.cached


Official description available in Danish Language here:

http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/122254/

Halskov Vænge Runddysse

Date Added: 25th Mar 2011
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: Denmark (Møn + Lolland-Falster)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3

Log Text: There are no dolmen visible here, only some stones that indicate that here a round barrow once existed

Halskov Vænge Langdysse 1

Date Added: 24th Mar 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Møn + Lolland-Falster)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3

Log Text: None

Halskov Vænge Langdysse 3

Date Added: 24th Mar 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Møn + Lolland-Falster)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3

Log Text: None

Halskov Vænge Langdysse 2

Date Added: 24th Mar 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Møn + Lolland-Falster)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: None

Halskov Vaenge

Date Added: 23rd Mar 2011
Site Type: Barrow Cemetery Country: Denmark (Møn + Lolland-Falster)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3

Log Text: Strange things happened at my visit in this wood. More often than not, I'm loosing something at my visits to these prehistoric burial sites. I use to think, that since I didn't bring any offerings the tombs simply takes something from me, but ever so often the lost items surfaces again. I don't know if this could be because the things we have today perhaps is worthless to ancient man.

During this visit I lost one of my gloves and gave up searching for it. At the end of the visit I decided to see what is situated at the coordinates this description points to. And believe it or not, but when visiting these coordinates I could see my lost glove some 10 meters away. Thanks to Maddy for providing the coordinates from where it several years later would be possible to spot an otherwise lost glove.

When I tried to operate the GPS at this spot, it simply locked up. This was a first, I never before have experienced the GPS to lock up. What should I think about it?

Halskov Runddysse

Date Added: 23rd Mar 2011
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: Denmark (Møn + Lolland-Falster)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5

Log Text: This Dolmen is placed outside the small wood in a cultivated field on the other side of a dirtroad

Halskov Vænge Langdysse 4

Date Added: 23rd Mar 2011
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Møn + Lolland-Falster)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: In my opinion several of the stones here has relative large helleristninger

Grønnæssegård Karlsstenen

Date Added: 21st Mar 2011
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 21st Mar 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: To get access to the dolmen you can either follow the fine dirtroad from the mainroad (Amtsvejen 16) until just before you'll enter the farm, then turn left and follow the separaration between the forrest and the field some 180 meter to the east, from where you can get access to another dirtroad and follow that some 60 back in direction of the farm, until it meet another dirtroad on the field. Follow that dirtroad some 400 meter to the south east, where you soon will be able to see the dolmen between the trees.

It's perfectly legal to go here, only remember that you are a guest on the farmes private land. So, please be polite!

Instead of walking the bit at the outskirt of the forrest, it'll also be perfectly legal to enter the farm and turn left after the first building on your left hand.