Burial mound in the Aggebo Hegn
The burial mound in Aggebo Hegn dates from the older Bronze Age between 1800 and 1000 BC. It is believed to be around 3500 years old. At that time it was customary to bury the influential dead in wooden coffins within large mounds.
Some burial mounds were covered with large stones to mark them as burial sites. The Bronze Age hills were often laid out on natural mounds so that they were visible from afar and signaled power and wealth.
Aggebo Hegn is one of two contiguous forests west of Græsted in the north of the Danish island of Zealand . The Aggebo-Hegn is the western part of the forest area, while the eastern part is the Græsted Hegn.
literature
- Peter Vilhelm Glob : prehistoric monuments of Denmark . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1967, p. 172 ff .
Coordinates: 56 ° 3 ′ 55.3 " N , 12 ° 14 ′ 40.7" E