"Klekkende Høj" is a very special passage grave because of its double burial chamber and its two entrances which lies right besides each other.
The grave was build about 2500 B.C. as one big chamber and was divided by one or two stones when finished and that is very unusual. The entrances are about 7 meter long and the depth´s of the chambers are about 4,5 meters.
This burial chamber was like "Kong Asgers Høj" used as a common grave and many bodies were buried inside it.
The chamber was excavated in the later part of the 18th century by the
Lord-in-Waiting of Marienborg - Antoine de Bosc de la Calmette. Calmette was very much interested by archaeology
and got his house administrator and 14 of his day-working peasants to
excavate the grave. They worked for 8 days, starting from the top with
removing the earth. When they reached the cover-stones they raised two
of them sideways, it was hard work but the peasants were used to that.
Inside they found a great amount of human bones, weapons of flint, ornamented clay-vessels
and pearls of amber. All the finds were sent to the newly established National Museum in
Copenhagen in the year 1807.
After all the finds had been removed, the chamber was closed again from the top and the
mound was rebuild.
This excavation was one of the first real archeological researches made in Denmark!
"Klekkende Høj" is situated to the south of Røddinge.
 Picture of the on going work August 5th 2001 |
 Someone had made a mini-Klekkende Høj |
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