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Snarringed\u00f6sen dolmen site lies 800 m northeast of Skegrie village in Sk\u00e5ne, Sweden. Each of the dolmens originally had its own entry passage. Archaeologist Christopher Tilley of University College London sees these dolmens as a transitional stage between a dolmen and a fully elaborated passage grave. Skeletal remains, in addition to pot sherds and an axe allowed for dating between 3500 and 2700 B.C.E.\u00a0 \u00a0 The two dolmens sit on a small mound.\u00a0 The site is accessed via a farmyard and is on the road to Ost Varring. It sits at 37 feet of elevation. The kerbs are nicely worked and tapered. 55N 24.595″, 13E05.65<\/p>\n

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The south dolmen measures 2 m by 2 m by 1.5 m high. It faces 110 degrees E.\u00a0 The chamber provided bone fragments, an amber bead, flint blades, a slate grinding stone, pot sherds and a Middle Neolithic pot, all of which are currently in the Statens Historiska Museum in Stockholm.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The north dolmen measures 3 m by 2.2 m by 1.7 m high. The entry chamber faces 50 degrees NE.<\/p>\n

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This orthostat or support stone has beautiful red granite marbling and highlights.<\/p>\n

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The dolmen caps are of interest because of the hundreds of cup marks inscribed into them. These Bronze Age carvings may indicate a fertility function or a cult of the dead. In local folklore they are called river mills because of the belief that elves ground their grains in the small cups.<\/p>\n

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      Snarringed\u00f6sen dolmen site lies 800 m northeast of Skegrie village in Sk\u00e5ne, Sweden. Each of the dolmens originally had its own entry passage. Archaeologist Christopher Tilley of University College London sees these dolmens as a transitional stage between a dolmen and a fully elaborated passage grave. Skeletal remains, in addition to pot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2009","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2009\/revisions\/2063"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}