The bronze “Night ” side of the disc .Apologies for the poor quality of the pic .
The golden “Day ” side of the Trundholm chariots disc.
400m north of themodernantiquarian.com/site/18310/gladsax_91.html and clearly visible from it .
The passage ,at 136 degrees , is one of the few with a possible winter solstice sunrise alignment .
The capstone has 11 ships ,animal figures and 90 cup marks .
Finds included a large amount of ceramic, flint fragments, 5 amber pearls, 3 arrows , 2 pins and a slate pendant.
Grass highlighted Ship .
One of the ships .
A group of nine Bronze Age barrows and five urn graves discovered in 1934 and recently cleared .
Finds were human remains , bronze knives tweezers and a tutulus (circular bronze ornament with projecting central point , associated with female burials e.g. Egtved girl . See :
Date ? Dunno.
It used to be quite a bit bigger .Thanks to some clearance the possible original perimeter is now a bit more obvious than it was some years ago .
View from the chamber .Pretty much due east over the Baltic .
Ancient stone monuments may have been used for Mysterious moonlit ceremonies, say archaeologists
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/07/ancient-stone-monuments-may-have-used-mysterious-moonlit-ceremonies/
The rationale for the headline produces some wonderful one liners .
Did someone actually say ““When we went out to some imaging at night, when the camera flashed we suddenly saw more and more art, which suggested that it was meant to be seen at night and in the moonlight.”
Laughter aside , the important thing is that there are some genuine markings in an area where they are far from common .
Over 200 cup marks on the capstone .
Hellig Kvinde (trans.) Holy woman and the other smaller stones in the open (to the west ) rectangular setting , her children .
The adjacent broken stone could have been the bodach (Hellig Mand ) to the cailleach but goes unmentioned .
Hellig Kvinde and unmentioned partner .