Lindholm Høje
Lindholm Hills
Germanic Iron Age to Viking Age·Late Iron Age Jutland / Viking Danes·🇩🇰 North Jutland, Aalborg, Denmark
About
About Lindholm Høje
Major Iron Age and Viking burial ground on Limfjord hill overlooking Aalborg, with 682 graves (Iron Age flat graves and Roman period) and Viking stone settings (stone ships 10-12 m and triangular/circular stone circles) marking cremation burials c.400–1000 CE, preserved under drifting sand dune that covered site from ~1000 CE until 1952 discovery. Associated Iron Age villages underneath. Museum on site.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Why sand drift preserved site intact
Theories
- 01Storm events and deforestation triggered dune cover that sealed village
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 400–1000 CE (Viking stone ships 800-1000 CE)
- Period
- Germanic Iron Age to Viking Age
- Culture
- Late Iron Age Jutland / Viking Danes
- Purpose
- Burial ground with stone ship markers and settlement cemetery
- Abandoned
- c.1000 CE (buried by sand drift)
- Rediscovered
- Sand quarrying exposed 1952; excavated 1952-58 Thorkild Ramskou
- Excavation
- Excavated
c. 400–1000 CE (Viking stone ships 800-1000 CE)
Initial construction
c. 1541 CE
Rediscovery
On the ground
Structures & features
57.0772° N · 9.9106° E · 42 m · 2 mapped features
Stone Ship Field
stone shipCluster of ship-shaped boulder settings marking Viking cremations
57.0772° N · 9.9106° EIron Age Village Remains
settlementLonghouse postholes under burial field
57.0770° N · 9.9110° E
Gallery