Stenseby

Stenseby
Settlement
Bodilsker Station, Stenseby, Bornholm
Stenseby Location on Bornholm
Coordinates: 55°02′35″N 15°03′37″E / 55.04306°N 15.06028°E / 55.04306; 15.06028
Country	Denmark
Region	Capital (Hovedstaden)
Municipality	Bornholm
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Stenseby is a small settlement near St Bodil's Church in the southeast of the Danish island of Bornholm. For a time, an active community grew up around Bodilsker Station on the Rønne–Nexø railway which operated from 1900 to 1968. The area is also known for its passage grave discovered in the 1880s.^[1]

Archeological finds

J. A. Jørgensen, a schoolteacher from Ibsker, was Bornholm's most active archeologist in the late 19th century. In 1882, he investigated the Stenseby passage grave from the Neolithic where he discovered a few hundred amber beads, several flint tools, including a 5-inch knife, a sandstone axe and a decorated pot. Not far from Stenseby, he investigated another site, Bønnestenen. Further finds were made in the 1920s including a bronze age pot.^[2]

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