Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Hashøj
DatedEst. 3500–500 BCE
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Overview
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Overview
Hashøj is a hill on the island of Zealand in the Region Sjælland, in the south-east of Denmark, 80 km west of Copenhagen. It is catalogued as a megalithic mound (a tumulus with integral stones) and is a protected ancient monument in Denmark, with a typological date estimate of 3500 to 500 BCE.
The summit lies 82 metres above sea level, 35 metres above the surrounding terrain.
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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.
Article
Hashøj
The region is largely covered by farmland, with forests and meadows also common, and has about 50 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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Hashøj stands on Zealand, with a base about 3.1 km wide. The land around it is mostly flat, and the nearest larger town is Slagelse, 3.1 km to the north. The highest ground in the surrounding area rises to 93 metres, 4.1 km north-east of Hashøj. The region is largely covered by farmland, with forests and meadows also common, and has about 50 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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Denmark has a very large number of surviving barrows, protected by law since 1937. The oldest belong to the Funnel Beaker culture of the fourth millennium BCE, but the great majority of the round mounds are younger. Many were raised in the Nordic Bronze Age, from about 1700 to 500 BCE.
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
See it in 3D
An interpretive reconstruction of the monument, standing on the real ground at its exact point, under the sun for that place and season. Drag to look around it.
The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Photographs
1 photograph, each with its author and licence
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
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°22′29″ N, 11°20′05″ EFor a GPS or map app: 55.37475, 11.33461
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.
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- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Spidsbanke3500–500 BCE
Rævehøj3500–2800 BCE
Kong Slags Dysse3500–2800 BCE- Megalithic long barrowQ301507243500–2800 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Pilegaarden3500–500 BCE
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- 01Wikidata Q30150929wikidata.org
- 02Source for this dateen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
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Text, licence and sources
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