Ydby Hede
Coordinates: 56 ° 41 '54.2 " N , 8 ° 26' 27" O The Ydby tow (Heide) located between the villages Ydby Boddum and, in the extreme south of Thy or in the northwest of Jutland near the inlet Skibsted, in Denmark .
The so-called graveyard past (Danish. Oldtidskirkegården) on the tow Ydby is a collection of 32 barrows from the Bronze . It is the largest remaining accumulation of large mounds in Denmark. In the nearby Dover Plantation, a reforestation area, there are another 14 round and two long hills . On the other side of the Boddum Bæke, a brook valley, there are another 12 hills. Some of them are only half a meter high, while others measure five meters. Between 3 and 4,000 years ago people were buried in tree coffins in the burial mounds .
The building material of the hill is sod . The large hills determine the north of Jutland much more like dolmens and passage graves or prehistoric monuments (such as stone boxes ). The park-like landscape of the Bronze Age consisted of open areas with interspersed groups of trees. The rows of hills are often on the moraines . They are sometimes among the highest terrain points in the regions of Denmark. However, they were not built on the highest point of natural elevations, but where the hills are already beginning to drop.
Nearby are:
- the runestone in the Hurup cemetery
- the passage grave Lundehøj near Heltborg
- the stone boxes and burial mounds of Gettrup
literature
- Ingrid Falktoft Anderson: Vejviser til Danmarks oldtid . 1994, ISBN 87-89531-10-8 , pp. 136, 140-141
- PV Glob : prehistoric monuments of Denmark. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1968.
- Karsten Kjer Michaelsen: Politics bog om Danmarks oldtid. Politiken, Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-567-6458-8 ( Politikens håndbøger ) p. 82
notes
- ↑ "so-called" because the term cemetery is reserved for the dead of the Abrahamic religions
- ↑ according to Ingrid Falktoft Andersen 1994 p. 201 alone in Vendsyssel 500