Didn’t have time to go to find this one but think the co-ordinates we had are better, so they have replaced Mark’s.
Moth
Glossary (as far as I can glean!)
Dysse: ‘dolmen’ = burial chamber, often with a mound (plural – dysser)
Dyssekammer: ‘dolmen chamber’ = burial chamber – as we usually use dolmen
Runddysse: ‘round dolmen’ = a chambered round barrow (plural – runddysser)
Langdysse: ‘long dolmen’ = a chambered long barrow (plural – langdysser)
Jættestue: ‘giant’s stones’ = passage grave (plural – jættestuen)
Høj: ‘hill’ = barrow
Skibssætning: ‘stone ship’ = megalithic boat-shaped setting
Books & maps
For our trip Jane and I used Julian’s The Megalithic European (see link at top of page to ‘The Books’) and James Dyer’s Discovering Archaeology in Denmark (1972, Shire ISBN 0 85263158 8).
For Langeland, we also used the Danish language Oldtidsmindser På Langeland (1996 Langelands Museum ISBN 87 88509-133) available at the Tourist Information office (and, I would imagine, Langelands Museum itself) in Rudkøbing, Langelands. It doesn’t seem to be available on their website though – langelandsmuseum.dk/museum_en
We also got a useful 1:50,000 map/leaflet in English Six cycling trips on Langeland (ISBN 87-7343-380-2) from the Tourist Information office.
Mapwise, we used the Euromap 1:30,000 of Denmark (ISBN 3-575-03112-6), which allied to some maps printed from the Visit Denmark website (see below) allowed us to find pretty much everywhere we looked for.
I also did some web research with limited success. I have posted the most useful site I found for the whole country (Visit Denmark) in the Links section below. I’ve posted a link specifically for Northern Jutland on the Jutland page. There is also a great PDF document available for some of the sites on Als, see Links on the Als page.
Wish we’d had this pdf map of the Norreskov monuments – Frydendal Kro, Frydendal Øst, Havrekobbel, Gamle Troldhøj and Baronens høj, as well as many others we didn’t find.
Right-click & chose ‘save as’ skovognatur.dk/NR/rdonlyres/C696C301-64AA-405C-A447-895DA377B5D2/0/30_NoerreskovenAls_kort.pdf
Wish we’d had this pdf map of the Norreskov monuments – Frydendal Kro, Frydendal Øst, Havrekobbel, Gamle Troldhøj and Baronens høj, as well as many others we didn’t find.
Right-click & chose ‘save as’ skovognatur.dk/NR/rdonlyres/C696C301-64AA-405C-A447-895DA377B5D2/0/30_NoerreskovenAls_kort.pdf
Wish we’d had this pdf map of the Norreskov monuments – Frydendal Kro, Frydendal Øst, Havrekobbel, Gamle Troldhøj and Baronens Høj, as well as many others we didn’t find.
Right-click & chose ‘save as’ skovognatur.dk/NR/rdonlyres/C696C301-64AA-405C-A447-895DA377B5D2/0/30_NoerreskovenAls_kort.pdf
Wish we’d had this pdf map of the Norreskov monuments – Frydendal Kro, Frydendal Øst, Havrekobbel, Gamle Troldhøj and Baronens høj, as well as many others we didn’t find.
Right-click & chose ‘save as’ skovognatur.dk/NR/rdonlyres/C696C301-64AA-405C-A447-895DA377B5D2/0/30_NoerreskovenAls_kort.pdf
Wish we’d had this pdf map of the Norreskov monuments – Frydendal Kro, Frydendal Øst, Havrekobbel, Gamle Troldhøj and Baronens høj, as well as many others we didn’t find.
Right-click & chose ‘save as’ skovognatur.dk/NR/rdonlyres/C696C301-64AA-405C-A447-895DA377B5D2/0/30_NoerreskovenAls_kort.pdf
Wish we’d had this pdf map of the Norreskov monuments – Frydendal Kro, Frydendal Øst, Havrekobbel, Gamle Troldhøj and Baronens Høj, as well as many others we didn’t find.
Right-click & chose ‘save as’ skovognatur.dk/NR/rdonlyres/C696C301-64AA-405C-A447-895DA377B5D2/0/30_NoerreskovenAls_kort.pdf
On the subject of the Jethro Tull references, last night at Reading Hexagon, they played Dun Ringill. Ian Anderson introduced it as a song about a neolithic (sic?) hillfort & went on to talk about it being used to try to see off the Vikings....
He’s usually reasonably knowledgable about stuff, so I suspect he was simplifying it for the plebs in the crowd. Or not.
Mentioned in Frances Lynch’s ‘Prehistoric Anglesey’. Exact map ref is SH 5190 8275.
Thanks to Dunston & FourWinds for clarification – I’d previously used the name for Glyn when I couldn’t find any info on it.
CANMORE calls it a ‘Clyde-type long chambered cairn’ and puts its overall dimensions as 56 metres long and 16 wide. Sounds about right. Full description is well written, very detailed and of course accurate, but possibly makes it sound a bit less impressive? Or perhaps not.
Anyway, it’s at rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/details_gis?inumlink=24120
An aside…
While writing this, at around 2am just before giving up for the day, I searched ‘Auchtubhmore Hill’ on the web, looking for info on Edinchip. The search returned various documents on the HMSO site, relating to restriction of movement, slaughter etc of possible ‘radioactive sheep’ as a result of the Chernobyl disaster.
Honestly – I was afraid I’d fallen asleep and was dreaming of the person currently known on TMA as Atomic Mutton…!