Another Tomb from the Iron Age

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.

All in all there were seven well preserved tombs which contained pottery and metal items. But they had been inhabited by people before as well, which is proved by some micro flakes from the Early Neolithic Age (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 7.500-6.000 AD) and by three deep pits from the Neolithic Age (4200-2800 AD) which function remains unknown.

A good preservation degree of the tombs can be a sequence of the fact that this area wasn’t ploughed up in a modern way. In 1858 a building was built here that was being used as an infant school which is proved by numerous evidence in the upper layer of soil such as plastic tableware, candy wraps, footballs buried on different spots.

However the tombs of the Iron Age are at the depth of 80 cm under the upper layer of soil. Tombs have different construction. Three of them are just pits with no bounds. Two of them were marked with some boulders as bounds, and one had a fence of stones around itself.

 

Original text, photo: Historie-Online