Archaeological Sites in Denmark
City/town/settlement in Denmark (8)
Bejsebakke
Bejsebakke (also Sorthøj) is a prehistoric settlement in Aalborg, Denmark. It was a Bell Beaker settlement from the Late Neolithic and a settlement of the Late Iron Age. Excavated…
Dankirke
Dankirke was an Iron Age and early medieval settlement in southwest Jutland, Denmark, near present-day Ribe. Elise Thorvildsen's excavations (1965-1970) uncovered approximately…
Egtved
Egtved is the site of a remarkably well-preserved Bronze Age burial dated by dendrochronology to 1370 BC. Discovered in 1921 by farmer Peter Platz in an oak log coffin within a…
Endebjerg
Endebjerg is the location of an excavation site set in the middle of farmland on the island of Samsø. A series of excavations have shown that this site has been occupied by a…
Gevninge
Gevninge is a small and modern village, but its history dates back to the Iron Age. The earliest indisputable written mention of Gevninge is from 1244, when its name appeared as…
Gudme
Gudme, meaning 'home of the gods,' was one of Denmark's largest and wealthiest Iron Age settlements on southeast Funen, flourishing from the 3rd to 7th centuries AD with around…
Stenseby Passage Grave
Stenseby is a Neolithic passage grave (jaettestue) near St Bodil's Church on the Danish island of Bornholm. In 1882, schoolteacher and archaeologist J. A. Jorgensen excavated the…
Tønnesminde
Tønnesminde is the site of an archaeological excavation ground and present-day organic farm on the Danish island of Samsø. Archaeological evidence attests the area around…
Barrow in Denmark (4)
Agri Bavnehøj
A Bronze Age burial mound (c. 1800-1000 BC) atop a 137-meter hill near the village of Agri in Mols Bjerge National Park, Denmark. The mound stands 5-6 meters tall, constructed…
Grønsalen
Grønsalen or Grønjægers Høj is located near Fanefjord Church on the Danish island of Møn. Some 100 metres long and 10 metres wide, it is Denmark's largest long barrow and is…
Hov Dås
Hov Dås is a large prehistoric burial mound in Jutland, Denmark.
Troldkirken
Troldkirken is a Stone Age long barrow in the village of Nibe, Denmark. The barrow was constructed by the Funnelbeaker culture around 3500 BC and is marked out by 47 megaliths.…
Necropolis/tombs complex in Denmark (3)
Hulbjerg Passage Grave
The Hulbjerg Passage Grave (Danish: Hulbjerg Jættestue) is a passage grave located at the southern end of the Danish island Langeland, situated on a 15-meter hill south of the…
Kong Asgers Høj
Kong Asgers Høj is a large passage grave on the island of Møn in Denmark. The megalithic structure dated to Neolithic Funnel Beaker culture. The grave consists of a chamber (10 m…
Kong Svends Høj
Kong Svends Høj is a passage grave on the island of Lolland in Denmark, immediately north of Pederstrup. Kong Svends Høj consists of a large, rectangular mound covering a chamber…
Archaeological site in Denmark (2)
Illerup Ådal
Illerup Ådal is a river valley and archeological site located near Skanderborg in East Jutland, Denmark. The oldest deposit in Illerup Ådal contained 300 spear points, two with…
Nydam Mose
The Nydam Mose, also known as Nydam Bog, is an archaeological site in Denmark located at Øster Sottrup, a town in Sundeved, eight kilometres from Sønderborg. In the Iron Age, the…
Burial in Denmark (2)
Hammerum Burial Site
The Hammerum burial site is an archaeological excavation located about 5 km east of Herning, Denmark. The site has been dated to the late Roman Iron Age and contained preserved…
Lindholm Høje
Lindholm Hoje is a major Viking Age burial site and former settlement overlooking Aalborg in northern Denmark. The site contains around 700 cremation graves from the Iron Age and…
Mound/tumulus in Denmark (2)
Langdos
Langdos (meaning 'long mound') is the largest Bronze Age burial mound in Denmark, located in Thisted, Jutland. Originally 175 metres long, it now measures 140 metres and was built…
Skelhøj
Skelhøj is a burial mound from the early Bronze Age. It was archaeologically excavated between 2002 and 2004. Skelhøj is an individual burial mound that is part of a broader…
Dolmen in Denmark (1)
Fortress/citadel in Denmark (1)
Geological interest in Denmark (1)
Megalithic stones in Denmark (1)
Natural feature in Denmark (1)
Petroglyphs in Denmark (1)
Other sites in Denmark (3)
Klekkende Høj
Klekkende Høj is a megalithic tomb on the island of Møn in Denmark. The tomb is believed to date from the Neolithic Age, ca. 3500-2800 BC, and is one of the best preserved of more…
Louisenlund, Bornholm
Louisenlund, some 3.5 kilometres east of Østermarie on the Danish island of Bornholm, is a site with one of Denmark's largest collection of megaliths. The stones stand alone or in…
Rispebjerg
A multi-period archaeological site on the Danish island of Bornholm containing Neolithic sun temple remains and Iron Age earthworks. The site features 5,000-year-old woodhenges…
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