Funnelbeaker culture

While heading to the beach yesterday, we came across a mound with a picnic table beside it.  No sign, just a large rock with "Regnershøj 1941" engraved in it.

When we were back at the house, the only info I could find was from a few German web pages, so excuse the following bad translation:

The Regnershøj (also called Regnshøj Bjerre) lies at Urhøjvej south of the village Svallerup, near the road between Kalundborg and Korsør, on the Danish island of Zealand. The passage grave was excavated in 1850 and restored in 1910, in 1989 and of 2004. The Regnershøj is a megalithic the funnel beaker culture, c. 3500-2800 B.C. Neolithic monuments are an expression of the culture and ideology of Neolithic societies. Their origin and function are considered indicator of social development.

We stood on top of the mound and Sam said "the entrance is down below". It was very cool that we were able to go inside the burial mound.

When were were on top of the mound, you could see other mounds on the high points of the hills in the distance.

The view from the top of the mound

The entrance into the mound.

The tunnel leading into the mound.

Inside the mound.

The view from inside looking out.

The funnelbeaker culture was a Neolithic farming and stockbreeding culture in northern and central Europe. The culture was foundthroughout the territories of present-day Denmark, southern Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and western regions of Russia.

The culture was named for the typical shape of its earthenware—a beaker with a funnel-shapedneck.

The funnelbeaker culture is known mainly from burials in simple earth graves, in stone chests (cists), in long burialmounds with a triangular stone facing, in dolmens under round or rectangular burial mounds, and in corridor-shapedsepulchers.