NOTER
I) Djurslands Museum, j.nr. DJM 2233, fannerup F, Ginnerup sn., Djurs Nr. herred.
2) P. Eriksen, Det neolitiske bopladskompleks ved Fannerup. KUML 1984, s. 9 ff 3) P. Eriksen, I 984, s. 11 (fig. 2).
4) S. H. Andersen, Ertebøllekunst. KUML 1980, s. 20.
5) S. H. Andersen, 1980, s. 19.
6) ationalmuseet, j.nr. A 19114, A 6247, Ebeltoft Museum, j.nr. EBM 29.
7) S. E. Albretsen og E. Brinch-Petersen, I 977, Excavation of a Mesolithic Cemetcry at Vedbæk, Denmark. Acta Archaeologica vol. 48, s. 1-28.
L. Larsson, 1984, Graberfelder und Siedlungen des Spatmesolithikums bei Skateholm, Siidscho
nen, Schweden. Arch. Korrbl. vol. 14, s. 123-I 30.
E. Brinch-Petersen, I 988, Ein Mesolithisches Grab mit acht Personen von Strøby Egede, Seeland.
Arch. Korrbl. vol. I 8, s. I 2 I-I 25.
8) S. H. Andersen, flade, skælhuggede skiver af Brovst-type. KUML 1978, s. 89 f.
9) S. H. Andersen har dog tidligere, ved Brovst, undersøgt 5 svagt rødfarvede fyldskifter med svag okkerfarvning. Det ene af disse med stærkt opløste skeletrester, men uden gravgods. De øvrige 4 indeholdt hverken skeletrester eller gravinventar af nogen form.
R. Newell, 1979, The Skeletal Remains of Mesolithic Man in Western Europe. Journal of Human Evolution vol. 8. s. 51 f.
IO) Nationalmuseet j.nr. 826/44, A 40529-32.
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13) K-3750, 6200 +/- 75 f. 1950, 4250 f.kr. CI4, 5130 f.kr. kal.
14) Ærkæologiske Udgravninger i Danmark 1988, s. 145-46 nr. 250 Djurslands Museum j.nr. DJM 2123.
15) Ærkæologiske Udgravninger i Danmark 1987, s. 153 nr. 276 Djurslands Museum j.nr. DJM 2123.
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SUMMARY
Ochre graves from the Early Stone Age on Djursland
In 1987-88, near Fannerup, a little village on the north side of Kolindsund, the remains of several ochre graves were investigated. One of these was particularly well-preserved. The graves were situated near the top of a small headland, close to the remains of an Ertebølle shell-heap.
The ochre graves
The best-preserved grave, a male burial, had vertical sides dug down into the soil and a gently rounded bottom (ligs. 3-4). The skeleton of the buried man showed that he had been placed stretched out on his back with his head to the north-east, but the body had been partially disturbed at both ends, head and feet. The grave filling had shell-material mixed into it, and the bottom l0-15 cm offilling around the skeleton was strongly ochre-coloured for the whole length of the grave. The strong ochre-colouring thus indicates actual strewing of ochre within the grave.
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In addition to the extremely well-preserved skeleton-remains an antler-staff was also found, of an old type with the shaft-hole at the burr, at the head end of the grave. This is a well-sharpened specimen, with its surface covered with a variety of incised decorations. The
»sheaf-of-corn motif« is particularly worthy of note, in that the grave can be dated on account of it to the beginning of the early Ertebølle Culture (ligs. 5-6).
Two flint-flakes were also found near the hip-level - one of them a large flake-knife with retouch at the base (fig. 7).
During investigation of the adjacent shell-heap the remains of a completely destroyed grave were found - a number of ochre-coloured human bones, together with a single tooth
bead in a disturbed shell-layer.
Finally there are reports of a third grave, in the southern part of the shell-heap, which is supposed to have been found and excavated around the turn of the century.
Against the background of these grave-linds there is therefore much to indicate that on this site there was an actual burial-place from the Ertebølle culture.
Other ochre graves from Kolindsund
Previously ochre-coloured skeleton-remains have been found on one other sire in Kolind
sund - near the village of Koed, also on the north side of the sound. A C-14 da ting places these skeleton-remains in the earliest Ertebølle culture, corresponding to the male grave from Fannerup.
Furthermore, in recent years investigations have been undertaken at yet another site at Kolindsund, at Nederst, and several similar ochre gaves have been discovered there.
In conclusion it must be said that both ochre-burials and actual burial-places are not, as was earlier believed, features which are confined to the area of eastern Denmark.
Gert Hougaard Rasmussen Djurslands Museum, Grenå Oversættelse: Joan Davidson
