Denmark's Prehistory

Building a new house in Skejby in the vicinity of Aarhus Danish archaeologists discovered a well preserved tomb that was full of ceramics and metal items and that’s age is dated by the very beginning of year 1000 AD.

The marine archaeologists from the Vikings’ Navy Museum are carrying on the excavation of the Neolithic (late Stone Age) settlements in Denmark at a depth of 12-13 metres under the sea between Zealand and Lolland.

Yet another handcrafted gold artifact has been found on Funen, just weeks after the discovery by a local fisherman of a gold bracelet from 800AD.

In the beginning of this year in sand-gravel pits in Uglehøj, which is located to south of Nestved, was found a human skull. The skull was taken to the police and carefully studied. At the end of studies all experts agreed that the skull has its origin from the Iron Age

In Hojby south of Odense are archaeologists from the Odense City Museums' just now started to excavate a settlement from the Early Iron Age (ca. 200 BC - 100 AD). They include excavated 8 large long houses, which formed part of the Iron Age peasants. And here is made in the record finds of offerings.

The Egtved Girl (c. 1390–1370 BC) was a Nordic Bronze Age girl whose well-preserved remains were found at Egtved (55°37′N 9°18′E), Denmark in 1921. Aged 16–18 at death, she was slim, 160 cm tall (about 5 ft 3 in), had long blonde hair and well-trimmed nails. Her burial has been dated by dendrochronology to 1370 BC. She was discovered in a barrow approximately 30 metres wide and 4 metres high.

In Klinteskoven, not so far from Møns Klint, the archeologist Jan Nielsen from Ørslev (close to Vordingborg), has made a sensational find last year with help of his metal detector.

To the south of Vojens city on the place where a modern stable will be constructed, traces from two houses, dated by the Bronze Age has been found. This is an extremely rare find.

The oldest among the laws, valid in Denmark nowadays, regards the Danefæ (what designates “property of the dead”). It is based on the medieval legislature of the Danish provinces, on the laws similar to those stated in Valdemar Seyre’s Jutland Code in 1259: “If  someone finds silver or gold in the barrows or in the furrow, marked by the plough, the latter must belong with the King”.