At Land of Legends - Lejre we have reconstructed burial monuments spanning more than 4000 years of Danish prehistory from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The burial monuments have, in most cases, been included in research projects concerning construction techniques and conditions of preservation.

• How could Stone Age farmers, without the use of modern cranes, bulldozers  and  excavators, manage to build impressive dolmens and passage graves?

         Come and see the impressive result of this successful experiment in the

         Burial Mounds area.

• Why is it that bodies buried in the Bronze Age mounds are so well preserved after more than 3000 years?

         For a number of years Land of Legends - Lejre has been the driving

         force behind a series of experiments which have contributed to a

         description of the chemical processes occurring in Bronze Age burial

         mounds.

         Between 2002 and 2004 we took part in the excavation of a Bronze Age

         burial mound in Southern Jutland to better understand these exceptional

         preservation phenomena.

• Scientific research at Land of Legends
• Activities this year 
• Land of Legends' interactive map