Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)The Copper Age
Sahl Hede
DatedEst. 3500–500 BCE
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Sahl Hede is a megalithic mound in Holstebro Municipality, Denmark. It lies at 56.5125° N, 8.8468° E.
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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
Sahl Hede
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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 regional background, “Danish barrows (gravhøje)”, is given below.
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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in Denmark are generally dated 3500 BCE to 500 BCE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
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.
Setting
237 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (14 within 1 km, 85 within 5 km), 237 of them of the same type. The site belongs to a dense concentration of monuments. In Holstebro Municipality, Denmark, 788 of the 789 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Sahl Hede (0.0 km west, megalithic mound); Sahl Hede (0.0 km north-east, megalithic mound); Sahl (0.0 km south-west, megalithic mound); Sahl Hede (0.1 km east, megalithic mound).
ProtectionSources for this section
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Heritage status: protected ancient monument in Denmark.
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.
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
- 56°30′45″ N, 8°50′48″ EFor a GPS or map app: 56.51249, 8.84675
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)Sahl Hede3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Sahl Hede3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Sahl3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Sahl Hede3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Ejsing Hede3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Ejsing Hede3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Tønning Høj3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Ejsing Hede3500–500 BCE
Sources
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