Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)
Slifsgård
DatedEst. 3500–500 BCE
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Overview
About this site
What the sources say
Slifsgård is a megalithic mound recorded in Vejen Municipality, Denmark. The catalogue places it at 55.5844° N, 9.1751° E and links it to Wikidata item Q30156561.
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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
About Slifsgård
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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 full article, “Danish barrows (gravhøje)”, follows below under About this kind of monument.
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Typological estimate, not a date for this site: monuments of this kind in this region are normally dated 3500 BCE to 500 BCE. The range comes from what is known about megalithic mound monuments in Denmark; nothing measured on this site itself is on record, so it may be younger or older than the range suggests.
The range rests on this regional background (source: the Wikipedia article “Tumulus”): 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.
Landscape and neighbours
Within 10 km lie 323 other catalogued sites (1 within 1 km, 23 within 5 km); 320 of them are also classed as megalithic mound. That puts it inside a dense cluster of monuments. It is one of 293 megalithic mound records among the 298 sites catalogued in Vejen Municipality, Denmark.
Nearest to it are Kragelund (0.8 km west, megalithic mound); Kragelund (1.1 km north, megalithic mound); Kragelund (1.2 km north, megalithic mound); Mandhøj (1.7 km north, megalithic mound). The catalogue is assembled from open records and is not complete, so unrecorded monuments may lie closer.
Records and protectionSources for this section
Sources for this section
Heritage records attach the status protected ancient monument in Denmark to this site. The open records for it are Wikidata (Q30156561), where corrections and further identifiers can be added. Many such sites stand on private land; check local access rules and respect the monument and its surroundings.
How this page was madeSources for this section
Sources for this section
This page was built automatically from Wikidata (CC0), the heritage register named above and the regional article “Danish barrows (gravhøje)”, written for the Atlas from the Wikipedia articles it cites (CC BY-SA 4.0), plus distances and counts computed from the catalogue coordinates. It contains no AI-written text.
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
- 55°35′04″ N, 9°10′31″ EFor a GPS or map app: 55.58439, 9.17514
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)Kragelund3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kragelund3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kragelund3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Mandhøj3500–500 BCE
- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Kragelund3500–500 BCE
Bækkemonumentet SE3500–500 BCE- Megalithic mound (tumulus with integral stones)Q301395963500–500 BCE
Bækkemonumentet NV3500–500 BCE
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
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- 01Wikidata Q30156561wikidata.org
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Credit
Text, licence and sources
This page is assembled from open records (Wikidata, CC0; OpenStreetMap, ODbL) and a tradition article paraphrasing Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). No article exists for this site, and nothing here is written by a model.
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