Byhøj

Byhøj ( German  "residential hill" ) is the Danish name for vertically consecutive settlement horizons in the sequence of which a hill was created, as it is known as Tell , especially from the eastern Mediterranean-Danubian region. In Denmark they are, far from the ancestral form, a form of dwelling that remained limited to Thy and the Germanic Iron Age (150 BC – 400 AD). So far, Byhøje have been discovered in Ginnerup, Hurup, Lodderup, Mariesminde, Nørhå and at Vestervig Kirke . At Vestervig, a 24-house byhøj has been restored.

These are clusters of rectangular or trapezoidal enclosures that mark old house floor plans. Their once meter-thick sod and peat walls represent the relics of these buildings and are depicted in the terrain as low walls. The former buildings lie in several horizons on a cultural layer up to two meters high. Surrounding pavement and paved access paths complete the parallel buildings of different sizes, which also appear as rows of houses.

literature

• "Bopladser i Sydthy fra romersk Jernalder" by Frank Lauridsen Danish. (PDF; 191 kB)

• Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ) p. 81

Web links

• Vestervig, Jernalderboplads. northseatrail.org Eisenzeitwohnplatz ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )