Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Bjerne
DatedEst. 3500–500 BCE
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Der Runddysse in der Bjerne Mark liegt östlich des Bjernevej, nahe Faaborg, auf der Halbinsel Horne Land auf Fünen in Dänemark, mit Blick auf die Bucht nach Faaborg.
Der freistehende, West-Ost orientierte Runddysse mit je zwei Tragsteinen auf der Nord- und Südseite und einem in situ aufliegenden Deckstein hat im Osten einen kleinen Schwellenstein. Der Tragstein im Westen fehlt, wobei die 2,5 × 1,3 m und etwa 1,0 m Höhe messende Kammer ansonsten vollständig ist. Auf dem großen, klobigen Deckstein befinden sich ein paar Schälchen und eine Reihe von Sprenglöchern vom Versuch, den Stein zu zerstören.
In der Nähe liegt das Ganggrab Bjerne Knoldsborg 2.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Bjerne: the whole story
In briefSources for this section
- Wikipedia (German): Runddysse in der Bjerne MarkCC BY-SA 4.0
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- Wikipedia (German): Runddysse in der Bjerne MarkCC BY-SA 4.0
Bjerne is a megalithic mound with integral stones in Denmark. It is also known as Runddysse in der Bjerne Mark. The monument lies east of Bjernevej, near Faaborg, on the Horne Land peninsula of Fünen, overlooking the bay toward Faaborg.
The freestanding round mound is aligned west to east. It has two supporting stones on each of the north and south sides and a large, roughly shaped capstone resting in position. A small threshold stone closes the east end. The west supporting stone is missing, but the rest of the chamber remains intact. The chamber measures 2.5 × 1.3 m and about 1.0 m high.
Several shallow hollows and a line of drill-like holes mark the large capstone. These are described as the result of attempts to break the stone. The nearby Ganggrab Bjerne Knoldsborg 2 forms part of the same wider group of monuments.
Bjerne is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 500 BCE. More broadly, Denmark has a very large number of surviving barrows, protected by law since 1937. Most are later than the oldest Funnel Beaker Culture mounds and many were raised during the Nordic Bronze Age, from about 1700 to 500 BCE.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Runddysse in der Bjerne Mark", shown in the original language.
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- Wikipedia (German): Runddysse in der Bjerne MarkCC BY-SA 4.0
Bjerne is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality, Denmark. Wikidata describes it as: ancient monument in Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality (8224). A typological estimate: 3500 BCE to 500 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Runddysse in der Bjerne Mark", shown in the original language.
How this page was madeSources for this section
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- Wikipedia (German): Runddysse in der Bjerne MarkCC BY-SA 4.0
The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-08) from the cited Wikipedia article “Runddysse in der Bjerne Mark”, translated from German. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Danish barrows (gravhøje)
Denmark has a very large number of surviving barrows, protected by law since 1937, and the Atlas draws most of its Danish mounds from the national register of monuments. The oldest belong to the Funnel Beaker culture of the fourth millennium BCE, whose long barrows and stone-chambered tombs are described in their own articles. The great majority of the round mounds are younger. Many were raised in the Nordic Bronze Age, from about 1700 to 500 BCE.
The Bronze Age barrows hold remarkable burials. In a number of them, oak coffins stayed sealed and waterlogged, so that wool clothing, hair and textiles survived; only the bones of the dead are gone. The Egtved Girl, a young woman buried beneath the mound Storehøj in a woollen blouse and corded skirt with a bronze belt plate, is the best-known case: tree rings in her oak coffin date the burial to the summer of 1370 BCE. Borum Eshøj gave similar finds from the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries BCE. Later in the Bronze Age cremation took over from inhumation, and the dead were buried in urns.
Mound-building did not stop with the Bronze Age: Danish round barrows were raised from the Neolithic to the Viking Age.
When visiting, look for flat tops where old diggers cut in, and for the hollows where kerb stones were once removed.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Tumulus, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture, Wikipedia: Nordic Bronze Age, Wikipedia: Egtved Girl, Wikipedia: Borum Eshøj, Wikipedia: Jelling · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 3500–500 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic mounds in Denmark; this site has not been dated itself. Denmark has about 20,000 preserved tumuli with the oldest around 5,000 years old; the Neolithic examples are Nordic megalithic mounds (dysser) of c. 3500-2800 BC.Source for this date
Where it stands
Denmark
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 55°05′32″ N, 10°12′27″ EFor a GPS or map app: 55.09218, 10.20749
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Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Dyreborg Skov3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Dyreborg Skov3500–500 BCE
Bjerne Knoldsborg Jættestue3500–2800 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Bihøj3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Bihøj3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Sinebjærg Skov3500–500 BCE
Skjerningehøj3500–2800 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Gl. Kohave3500–500 BCE
Sources
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2 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q29645519wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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- Bjerne-Mark-Runddysse-a.jpgHolger rixCC BY-SA 3.0
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