The stone chamber, which remains today, was originally enclosed by a burial mound, so that only the top of the tombstone (2.6 meters long, 1.75 meters wide) above the burial chamber and the opening via the chamber passage to the south were visible. From the chamber passage, only a single support stone has been preserved and from the tomb chamber to the north one of the original five support stones is missing. No findings from the nozzle are known.
The Årslev stone chamber is not the only one known from the area. Ca. 700 meters further east - where the auto company Dyssehøj is today - lay...
The stone chamber, which remains today, was originally enclosed by a burial mound, so that only the top of the tombstone (2.6 meters long, 1.75 meters wide) above the burial chamber and the opening via the chamber passage to the south were visible. From the chamber passage, only a single support stone has been preserved and from the tomb chamber to the north one of the original five support stones is missing. No findings from the nozzle are known.
The Årslev stone chamber is not the only one known from the area. Ca. 700 meters further east - where the auto company Dyssehøj is today - lay there until approx. 1880 a similar nozzle, and opposite the Årslev nozzle lay a slightly younger stone coffin , which was excavated in 1822 by Colonel Julius Høegh-Guldberg ( 1779 - 1861) and now, except for a slight elevation, has completely disappeared.
At the time the Årslev nozzle was constructed, the area where Brabrand Sø and Årslev Engsø are located today was a shallow fjord arm from the Kattegat .