Dyss

The Danish name for the earliest type of megalithic chamber tomb found in Scandinavia in the Early Neolithic. The oldest dysser are rectangular slab cysts roofed with capstones and containing 1-6 skeletons. The burial chamber is covered with a mound which rises to the height of the capstone and has a retaining kerb of stones. Drysser are associated with an early phase (C) of the TRB culture. Similar but less massive cysts were built by other TRB groups elsewhere in northern Europe.

Danish name for the earliest type of megalithic chamber tomb found in Scandinavia. Dysser are simple rectangular chambers containing one to six bodies; one or more such chambers may be found under the characteristic rectangular mounds, surrounded by a kerb of stones. Dysser are associated with an early phase of the TRB culture.