This natural looking and quite beautiful long barrow is not only a fake, but the stones which was used to build it was taken from a real long barrow and other burial mounds, which were in the area around Marienborg Manor.
It was build around the year 1800 by Marienborgs owner at that time de la Calmette and was build as a copy of a real
long barrow, and real stoneage graves in the area was used to build the copy. It has even
mistaken for a real stoneage long barrow by researchers which measured and recorded it as
a real monument. It has even been protected by law as a National monument!
It is said that the long barrow and the Bautastone is a copy of the Røddinge Kings grave.
The Røddinge King or King Rød was a giant living at Ulvsund. It is said that the cover
stone came from his actual grave which was situated on Røddinge Mark(=field). It is not
Klekkendehøj but a grave situated not far from it. The bautastone has been taken from
Askeby Mark(=field), where it still was standing upright in 1789. Calmette had to use 16
pairs of horses to get the stone from its origin to Marienborg. The broken bautastone at
the end of the long barrow has also be taken from some other place.
Calmette died in 1803 and was Møns first ancient researcher / archeologist and it was his collection of ancient artifacts, which became to be some of the first things in the big collection of today at the National Museum in Copenhagen.
The long barrow is situated in the forest near the manor in Damsholte.
