Stenseby Passage Grave

Stenseby Passage Grave
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Stenseby is a Neolithic passage grave (jaettestue) near St Bodil's Church on the Danish island of Bornholm, discovered in the 1880s. In 1882, schoolteacher and archaeologist J. A. Jorgensen excavated the tomb, uncovering several hundred amber beads, flint tools including a 12.7 cm knife, a sandstone axe, and decorated pottery. Later excavations in the 1920s yielded a Bronze Age pot, indicating the grave's reuse over millennia. The southern capstone bears cup marks, a form of ancient rock art. The site is registered in the Danish Sites and Monuments Record and rated in near-perfect structural condition.

TypeCity/town/settlement
Period4500 - 3000 BC
CountryDenmark
Coordinates55.0432° N, 15.0604° E

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