Down A Hole

Mårhøj Jættestuen is a communal tomb from the Peasant Stone Age
(I so did not google that)

A few days ago I visited a "tourist attraction" which hardly even the locals know about! In the middle of no-where in particular, surrounded by Danish fields, a strange hill can be seen. It hides a dark and ancient secret... a 5000 year-old burial tomb!!

 

You can just imagine how difficult it was for a tall stick insect like me to get in there!



The passage grave was made between 3200-2800BC so it was a looong time ago- before the vikings were here in Denmark! Of course I had to get a closer look so I entered the spooky grave- alone...



The entrance tunnel was so small that it was a real challenge to get my 185cm-tall body into it. It was also pitch black so I took plenty of photos with my camera simply to use the flash as a momentary torchlight! The tomb is shaped like a T, where it branches off into two burial chambers. Here I could almost stand up straight. Because there was absolutely no light, I pointed the camera in all directions and in that way I could see what was right in front of me.

When this was first discovered around 200 years ago, there were skeletons, bones, urns and some amber pearls. Unfortunately they have been removed so now there was nothing left but the massive stones- and me. I really enjoyed visiting this almost completely unknown piece of Danish history. There are in fact many of these prehistoric stone thingies around Denmark- there's actually one about 200m from where I live but no one I know has actually gone and visited it. Most Danes don't find them interesting because it's just something that has always been there and they couldn't care less how old and historic they are. Either that or they're all just claustrophobic.