Klekkende Høj

Klekkende Høj is a tomb megalithic being on the island of Møn to the Denmark.

The tomb goes back roughly to 2.500 years before J.C and is being one of the burials best preserved among the hundred tombs present on the island. It is at a short distance of the road connecting Tostenæs to Røddinge. The tomb includes/understands an access passage to a funerary room whose orientation is North-South, the latter being located at the center of the monticule. Klekkende Høj has this of unusual that this access passage is in fact double, the two passages being quasi parallel one with the other, vis-a-vis the east. The central room is divided into its medium by two broad stones, each passage reaching a half of the room. These corridors make 7 meters length roughly and are sufficiently broad so that a squatted man borrows them. The two halves of the funerary room do each one 4,5 meters length and width, but are too low so that a man can to with it be held upright. The room and the passages consist of stone walls on which broad stones rest, the whole being covered with ground.

The tomb was excavated in 1797 per Antoine de Bosc of Calmette, then governor of the island. Fifteen men worked during a whole week in order to dig the monticule and to withdraw some of the stones forming the roof of the room to be able to reach the contents of the latter. Inside many human remainders were, of flint, potteries and made jewels of Ambre. The whole was sent to the national natural history museum with Copenhagen. Lastly, fall it was closed again.

Since, the burial was released again and the access from now on is opened to the public by the corridors of origin. The room southern part was restored in 1987 in order to guarantee safety of it. At the same time, the northern room side seemed to be solid but it was later discovered that some of the stones forming the roof of the room threatened to slip of their supports. The whole was restored in 2002 and an electrical installation was even installed for the benefit of the visitors.

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{da} Description of the tomb

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