Valby Hegn Langdysse 6

Trip No.100  Entry No.48  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3

Log Text: Welcome to megalithic wonderland! Make a nice tour through the woods and visit 7 long barrows!

From Helsinge take road 223 to Valby. Turn right in the direction of Helsinge camping. Just after the camping there is large parking place on your left. We have cycled from there to the monuments, but a walk is certainly feasible, it's about 2,5 km (one way...). Pick up a leaflet at the parking place (in our case they were out of stock though).

From the parking place turn left onto the forest road. Walk for over a kilometer until the road forks. The monument is now on your right.

Gribskov Megalitgrav

Trip No.100  Entry No.47  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Couldn't find on 14th Jul 2015

Log Text: Should be findable from Gribskov parking place but no such luck...

Gribskov Jættestue

Trip No.100  Entry No.46  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Passage Grave Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5

Log Text: Better known as Mor Gribs Hule (Mother Grib's Cave). It is nicely restored but the capstone is missing.

From Hillerød take road 251 to Helsinge. After about 3 km there is a parking place on your left. The monument is on the other side of the road.

Kongedyssen Langdysse

Trip No.100  Entry No.45  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3

Log Text: On road 201 from Blovstrød to Hillerød turn right to Kirkelte. Turn first right again on unpaved road called Frederik 7 vej. There is a big parking place on your right. Walk along the unpaved road for about 600 meters then turn right over a small bridge. You will find the monument after 100 meters on your right.

Harreskov Hørgen

Trip No.100  Entry No.44  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 4

Log Text: Intriguing site, but there is not really something to see here. My wife still has fits of laughter when she remembers looking for the site. It's basically a small heap of small stones and it is a bit of a mystery how they know it is Neolithic. But if it is, then it is something I have never seen before.

Difficult to find in the suburbs of Copenhagen. From N6 take road 211 to Stenløse and continue on this road to Ballerup. There turn left to Værløse. In Værløse turn right before the railway and follow directions to Hareskovby. You will enter a wood. At the end of it you will find a parking place on your left. Park there and take a leaflet. Follow a path parallel to the road in the direction you came from. After 300 meter you will see the info panel and then you realise you are looking at a monument.

Truelstrup Runddysse 1

Trip No.100  Entry No.43  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 1 Access 5

Log Text: When I visited in July 2015 this site was disappointing. It was completely overgrown. It is easy to find though. From Viby / Birkede take road to Hegnede. Upon entering the wood (Klosterskov) immediately turn right on unpaved road and park. The monument is on your right now. In my case only the capstone could be seen from the road.

Truelstrup Runddysse 2

Trip No.100  Entry No.42  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Couldn't find on 13th Jul 2015

Log Text: Unable to find it in the woods, probably as overgrown as Truelstrup Runddysse 1.

Søster-Svenstrup Videdysse

Trip No.100  Entry No.41  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Couldn't find on 13th Jul 2015

Log Text: Had not realised it was in a private garden...

Birkede Langdysse 2

Trip No.100  Entry No.40  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Couldn't find on 13th Jul 2015

Log Text: Not easy to spot either. Not my day apparently...

Lejre Hyldehøj

Trip No.100  Entry No.38  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s) Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4

Log Text: It is a short walk from the Gammel Lejre ship setting. Very nice landscape here, dotted with barrows and stones.

Øm Jættestue 1

Trip No.100  Entry No.37  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Passage Grave Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4

Log Text: Øm sweet Øm (free after Kraftwerk). Very well preserved passage grave. From road 14 Roskilde to Ringsted turn right in the direction of Øm. The monument is signposted from there. It has a large parking place. At the parking place you will find a leftover from an archeological experiment that investigated how the the capstones could have been placed. On the left side there is a footpath that brings you to the passage grave.

From the info panel:

One autumn day in 1932, the sons from Øm Abbey Farm were sent into the field to dig potatoes. In their lunch break, they sat themselves down to enjoy their packed lunch on the raised mound by the field overlooking Ledreborg's forest. Quite by chance they discovered a hole in the top of the mound. They dropped a stone into the hole and there was a hollow CLONG - there was a tomb in the mound! On their next day off they looked for the entrance of the tomb and they entered the tomb chamber by removing the inner capstone over the chamber passage. Their efforts did not bring them any great riches however. They "only" found flint tools, a clay vessel as well as bone and amber beads, which lay among piles of bones from generations of people buried in the Neolithic period.

In the Neolithic period the 6.8 meter long, narrow chamber in Øm passage grave was completely covered over. From the outside only a small access opening a the foot of the mound was visisble.

The finds of bronze objects in the chamber and in urns buried on the outer side of the mound show that Øm passage grave was reused as a burial place right up to the Bronze Age around 700 BC - i.e. around 2400 years after the grave was constructed by Neolithic farmers.

Gammel Lejre Skibssætning

Trip No.100  Entry No.36  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Stone Circle Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4

Log Text: The shipsetting itself is ruinous, but the full landscape is really fascinating here. A walk to the Ravnshøj on the other side of the brook will reveal this (see pictures). You really wonder if the strangely shaped Hestebjerg was the place where it all started.

From Roskilde take road 14 to Ringsted and immediately turn right in the direction of Ledreborg. After about 6 kms turn right in the direction of Gammel Lejre and Lejre Forsøgscenter. Park at the center and enjoy your walk.

Gravhøj ved Højby

Trip No.100  Entry No.39  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s) Country: Denmark (Hovedstaden)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5

Log Text: From Lejre take road to Højby, aptly called Højbyvej. At fork in the road follow directions to Rorup (you guessed it, Rorupvej). Turn right on the first road and park there. The monument is on your right.

Hothers Høj

Trip No.100  Entry No.35  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Round Barrow(s) Country: Denmark (Sjælland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5

Log Text: On road 209 from Faxe to Køge in the village of Hårlev near the church on the west (left) side of the road. Parking places available.

Remkolde Jættestue 2

Trip No.100  Entry No.34  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Passage Grave Country: Denmark (Sjælland)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 11th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3

Log Text: On road 22 Vordingborg to Næstved on the east side just before the road to Remkolde

Knudsskov Runddysse

Trip No.100  Entry No.33  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen Country: Denmark (Sjælland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3

Log Text: Not sure this is the right monument, but it looked like a runddysse to me, and it was on about the right place. There are a lot of stones in the wood and there are surely more monuments to be found if you start looking for it. To get there, take the footpath from Knudsskov parking place and walk for a quarter of an hour. The site is in a dip on your right hand (north side).

Knudshoved Langdysse

Trip No.100  Entry No.32  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Sjælland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5

Log Text: Knudsskov itself is not signposted. From Vordingborg take road to Oreby and from there go west. At the entrance of the wood there is a large private parking place (pay in a box before entering the place). This monument is on the far end of the parking place.

Knudshoved Jættestue 1

Trip No.100  Entry No.31  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Passage Grave Country: Denmark (Sjælland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 5

Log Text: Knudsskov itself is not signposted. From Vordingborg take road to Oreby and from there go west. At the entrance of the wood there is a large private parking place (pay in a box before entering the place). This monument is on the near end of the parking place. It has been fully restored. On my visit the mound was paved with turfs of grass. I don't know if this was an experiment or true to original. There is a beautiful tree just behind it. Really worth a visit.

Knudsby Langdysse 1

Trip No.100  Entry No.30  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Sjælland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5

Log Text: From Vordingborg follow directions to Oreby. There go left to Knudsskov. The monument is on your right hand (north side) on a high place along the road.

Knudsby Langdysse 2

Trip No.100  Entry No.29  Date Added: 25th Jun 2016
Site Type: Long Barrow Country: Denmark (Sjælland)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5

Log Text: From Vordingborg follow directions to Oreby. Turn left there and immediately on your left you will find this Langdysse (south side).