Chief's house in South Thy
The chief's house in Südthy ( Danish : Høvdingehus i Sydthy ) was discovered in Thy in Denmark in 2015 . During the route investigation for a total of around 25 km for an underground high-voltage cable between Heltborg and the coast of the Limfjord, double rows of large post holes were uncovered.
They came from a large hall from the Early Bronze Age (around 1400 BC). The building, which is large even by today's standards, was about 36.6 m long and 6.3 m wide (about 230 m²) and is one of the largest of its time.
The roof was supported by two inner rows of posts. Near the northwest end there were pits filled with charcoal and burned stones. The wooden house is not built from wattle walls , but from posts with horizontal boards in between. It was something special in an area where trees were already a scarce resource at the time. Only a powerful person could afford this structure, so the archaeologists believe that it was a chief of the Toftum area who had this structure built in the time of the Egtved girl . They are the same people who were buried under great burial mounds as they were in Thy z. B. lie on the nearby Ydby Hede .
In the literature, individual large buildings from the Danish Bronze Age (up to 50 × 10 m, with subdivision into living, stable and central parts) are referred to as halls. However, there is still no evidence that they are places for gatherings or cults , as was the case with the later Iron Age halls .
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- Description (Danish)
- Pictures Description (Danish)