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Bavnehøj is an undertaking that must have involved many people working with primitive pre-iron age tools. The Agri mound was part of a civilisation that built the 60.000 bronze age mounds registered in
Denmark today. It has been calculated that in the bronze age period from 1800 – 500 BC, 100 – 150 burial mounds were built every year. This can be seen as a testimony to the existence of organized communities in a 2500 – 3800 year old pre Christian civilization, that must have had a pervasive religious belief containing a uniform concept of burial traditions.
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toilet facilities. Horseback riders often use the designated horse trailer parking facilities by Agri Bavnehøj as a starting point for rides in the park. From the facilities there is a footpath to the top of the mound. The hilly small roads up to Agri Bavnehøj traverse some of
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The burial mound on Agri Bavnehøj is made from approximately 650.000 blocks of stacked turf blocks giving the mound a height of 5 – 6 meters. Building a mound this seize corresponds to peeling the top turf away from around 7 hectares of land. The construction of large bronze age mounds such as Agri
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Agri Bavnehøj is situated in the protected not farmed part of The
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lies. Agri Bavnehøj is less than a kilometer east of another vista point, Stabelhøje, 135 meters above sea level, where the view is perhaps even better. The feeling of height is emphasized by the view being all the way down to sea level. The Agri Bavnehøj hill was formed by ice sheet movements
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View from a neighboring mound, Stabelhøje, less than a kilometer from the Agri mound, gives a view of Knebel Bay, and Aarhus Bay.
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