Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Dansebakken
DatedEst. 3500–500 BCE
Photo Jens Juel · Public domainSource file on Wikimedia Commons
Overview
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What the sources say
Dansebakken er en rundhøj i Kongens Lyngby tæt ved Sorgenfri Slot.
Rundhøjen er på Kulturarvsstyrelsens liste over fredede fortidsminder,
hvor den er beskrevet som en høj fra oldtiden på 25 gange 3,5 meter med flad top, der er cirka 10 meter i tværmål.
Rundhøjen ligger som en del af Sorgenfri Slotshave.
I lighed med Norske Huset ligger højen på den modsatte side af Kongevejen i forhold til slottet.
Arveprins Frederik omlagde haven i 1791-1794, og ved Dansebakken etablerede han en festplads for borgerskabet.
Jens Juel malede omkring 1800 et oliemaleri med titlen Dansebakken ved Sorgenfri.
Maleriet befinder sig nu på Statens Museum for Kunst
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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.
The full article
Dansebakken: the whole story
In briefSources for this section
- Wikipedia (Danish): DansebakkenCC BY-SA 4.0
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- Wikipedia (Danish): DansebakkenCC BY-SA 4.0
Dansebakken is a round mound in Kongens Lyngby, close to Sorgenfri Slot in Denmark. It forms part of the palace garden and lies opposite Sorgenfri Slot across Kongevejen. The mound is listed among protected antiquities by the Kulturarvsstyrelsen.
The mound is 25 gange 3,5 meter high, with a flat top and a diameter of cirka 10 meter. It is catalogued as a megalithic mound, or tumulus with integral stones, and is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 500 BCE.
Arveprins Frederik redesigned the garden in 1791-1794 and created a festival area for the townspeople at Dansebakken. Jens Juel painted an oil painting titled Dansebakken ved Sorgenfri around 1800. The painting is now in Statens Museum for Kunst.
Dansebakken takes its place among the many surviving barrows in Denmark. Most Danish round mounds are later Funnel Beaker long barrows and stone-chambered tombs, with many raised during the Nordic Bronze Age, from about 1700 to 500 BCE. In some Bronze Age burials, waterlogged oak coffins preserved wool clothing, hair and textiles, although the bones of the dead were lost.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Danish article "Dansebakken", shown in the original language.
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- Wikipedia (Danish): DansebakkenCC BY-SA 4.0
Dansebakken is a megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones) in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, Denmark. Wikidata describes it as: ancient monument in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality (96284). A typological estimate: 3500 BCE to 500 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the Danish article "Dansebakken", shown in the original language.
HenvisningerSources for this section
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- Wikipedia (Danish): DansebakkenCC BY-SA 4.0
Dansebakken i Slots- og Kulturstyrelsens database
How this page was madeSources for this section
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- Wikipedia (Danish): DansebakkenCC 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 “Dansebakken”, translated from Danish. 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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Photographs
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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°46′41″ N, 12°29′36″ EFor a GPS or map app: 55.77810, 12.49320
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Vilhelminelyst Rundhøj3500–500 BCE
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- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Birkehøj tumulus3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Lystofte3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Lindehøj3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Troldehøj3500–500 BCE
- DolmenDyrehavegaard dolmen3500–2800 BCE
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- 01Wikidata Q16323354wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
Image files
- Dansebakken ved Sorgenfri.jpgJens JuelPublic domain
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