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Submitted by CharcoalBurner89 on Wednesday, 05 October 2022  Page Views: 1079

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Høj Stene Alternative Name: Vejerslev Skibssætning
Country: Denmark
NOTE: This site is 7.179 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Midtjylland Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Silkeborg  Nearest Village: Kongensbro
Latitude: 56.304240N  Longitude: 9.681630E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
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5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Høj Stene
Høj Stene submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : September 23, 2022 (Vote or comment on this photo)
According to the new excavations and finds, the former ship setting of Vejerslev ("Høj Stene") is dated to around 600 AD and is therefore late Iron Age in Denmark and not Viking Age. According to more recent information on the investigations into the ship setting, it may be the oldest royal tomb in Denmark. Remarkable gold finds show that the ship setting framed a cremation grave again from the late Danish Iron Age (550-750 AD).

The first written mention comes from the time of Christian V. (1646-1699) with the designation "Høys Steen". Between 1763 and 1781 information can be found in "De danske Atlas" e.g. by Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764). It states that the ship setting near the Gudenå, southwest of Vejerslev in Jutland, stretches between two burial mounds over a length of about 100 paces. According to reports from the teacher J. Christensen, it had a length of about 88.0 meters and a maximum width of 13.0 meters. The 16 stones preserved at that time stood at a distance of 2.0 m to 4.0 m and were between 1.9 and 2.5 meters high. According to the report, the great northern stone was 4.5 meters long.
The pointed-oval ship setting is said to have originally consisted of two rows of 12 railing stones each plus the two stones on the two burial mounds. According to the sources, the ship setting was northeast of the Kongensbro across the Gudenå about 170 m from the Gudenå, between two burial mounds with a diameter of 14.0 to 16.0 m. According to reports, in 1743 stones were removed from the ship's setting. The remaining stones were taken away about 100 years later. In 1929, Johannes Brøndsted (1890–1965) tried unsuccessfully to locate the ship's setting.
The Moesgård-Museum conducted excavations in 2013 that enabled to relocated the original ship setting. The reconstruction of the monument was also carried out under the direction of the museum and was inaugurated in 2020.

Wonderful description with a video (all in Danish) can also be found at the Moesgård Museum website: https://www.moesgaardmuseum.dk/

Fortidsminder: https://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/34373/

Some photos before the reconstruction can be found here: http://www.wikinger-in-daenemark.de/
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Høj Stene
Høj Stene submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : The largest stone of the ship setting is at the northern end. September 23, 2022 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Høj Stene
Høj Stene submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : September 23, 2022 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Høj Stene
Høj Stene submitted by CharcoalBurner89 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Høj Stene
Høj Stene submitted by CharcoalBurner89 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Høj Stene
Høj Stene submitted by CharcoalBurner89

Høj Stene
Høj Stene submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : Photographed from the east looking west. September 23, 2022

Høj Stene
Høj Stene submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : Information board along the way to the monument. September 23, 2022

Høj Stene
Høj Stene submitted by CharcoalBurner89 : Artist's impression of the place. September 23, 2022

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The Danish Iron Age by Andy B on Wednesday, 05 October 2022
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CharcoalBurner89 kindly sent me some explanation for the Danish Iron Age: According to Danish sources, the Iron Age in Denmark can be dated from about 500 BC - 800 AD. The problem is that the Migration Period is "in the thick of it". In this case (because it happened so late in the Iron Age) one could also speak of a time in transition to the Viking Age (the transitions at the end of a period are mostly fluid anyway).

Officially, the Viking Age begins (depending on who you ask) in 793 with the Viking attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne. I just don't think the transition can be nailed down so easily in time. You can take a specific date of course. But that usually leads to overly strong time boundaries. In Germany we like to say that such things are like "nailing a pudding to the wall". In this case, I would prefer to say "Late Iron Age" to specify the border to the very "Early Iron Age" (because this is more than 1000 years ago to this). Even among researchers, it was a point of discussion for a long time as to whether the ship setting is still Iron Age or already Viking Age.

Historically, up to the Middle Ages, Northern Europe has always had a late connection to the Bronze Age/Iron Age (for example: where Rome was already a city of millions in the Iron Age, northern Europe was a dark forest with many villages made of straw and loam huts - also Iron Age). The little diagram on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Age shows it very clearly that the time of the Iron Age really lasted quite a long time in Northern Europe (on the German site there is even an entry up to 1000 AD instead of 800 AD - so it really depends on which researcher/historian you ask)


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