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    August 10, 2024

    Mound with 2 giant living chambers, the exact access was a little unclear to me (perhaps only because of simultaneous harvesting work). In any case, the view from here is fantastic.

    Translated from the local Information sign:

    Dyser and giant houses are graves from the Peasant Stone Age. They both have burial chambers built of stone , with a mound of earth above. A die chamber usually has one large cover stone. The giant room chambers are larger, and they always have more cover stones. The youngest dowels can have a passage to the high side, while giants always have a passage.

    The dowels are the oldest, they were built in the earlier Stone Age , between 3500 and 3100 BC.

    The giant houses were built around 3100 BC, in the middle Bon desten age.

    The long jet here is 27.5 m long, 6 m wide and 1 m high. It has 2 burial chambers, both of which are today without cover stones. Around the mound stood a dense row of large stones, curbstones. Some of these have been preserved.

    The mound around the chambers is a strongly plowed long mound, 15 m long and 7.5 m wide. The 2 rather small chambers are both very damaged. They were originally oval, with a passage to the high side and with several large cover stones over chambers and passages. Of the row of curb stones around the mound, only 2 stones have been preserved.

    No finds are known from the graves. Looting stones from large stone tombs was very common in the past. The stones were e.g. used as building materials. According to the legend, stones from both the dowel and the giants' houses were used as a plinth for Rise Fattiggård.


    During the Second World War , the German Armed Forces had removed all the turf from the long jetty. They used it to build a parapet at the western giant's room, which was used as an aerial observation post.

    The graves were restored by the national museum in 1945. The traces of protection ten was removed and the turf put back in place. Unfortunately, the giant living room chambers were restored incorrectly. The drawing below shows how the chambers looked in the last century

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