Gryet

Gryet, some 4 kilometres west of Nexø and just north of Bodilsker on the Danish island of Bornholm, is a site with one of Denmark's largest collections of megaliths with tall upright stones standing among the trees in a little wood [1]. Gryet is on high ground which was once surrounded by water or marshes [1]. In the Iron Age, those living in the area found it to be an ideal site for their graves [1]. There were once over 60 stones but several have been removed and many have now fallen to the ground [1]. The highest, once standing on the mound at the southern side of the wood, was removed in the 17th century to be used as a gravestone [1]. The megaliths, which bear no inscription, stand over graves where the remains of burnt bones are buried [1].