Byhøj from Nørhå

The Byhøj of Nørhå is an Iron Age settlement type Byhøj . It is located about seven kilometers west of Snedsted in Thy in Denmark .

The findings of the Byhøj Iron Age houses in Thy are the result of excavations that began in the 1920s. The first house was excavated in Ginderup near Vestervig in 1922 , where today a reconstruction of the "Jernalderboplads" ( German  "Eisenzeitwohnplatz" ) can be seen. Multiple surveys in Ginderup, Vestervig, Hurup and Nørhå have answered a number of questions.

The houses of the places are well preserved because they were burned down and the roofs collapsed over the site of the fire. It is noteworthy that the new houses were built on the leveled site of the old houses, which resulted in real Byhøje (= town hill) comparable to the tell settlements of Southeast Europe.

The east-west oriented long houses with walls made of turf, the living area with a clay floor and fireplace in the east, had a stable area with a ground floor in the west. There were also a few small square houses.

The excavation of the burned down houses at Nørhå provided information about the shape, about organic material such as wood and textile and about ceramics . The rare large, square clay pots that can be found in the Thisted Museum today come from Nørhå .

literature

• Jette Kjær: Antiquities from Thy. Edited by Sparkasse Thy, Thisted 1976.

Web links

• Frank Lauridsen: Bopladser i Sydthy fra Romersk Jernalder. (Danish, PDF; 191 kB)
• Vestervig, Jernalderboplads. northseatrail.org Eisenzeitwohnplatz ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 56 ° 54 ′ 2.2 ″  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 28 ″  E