Stabelhøje

Stabelhøje or Stabel Høje (English: The Stacked Mounds) are two Bronze Age Mounds 135 meters and 133 meters above sea level by the village Agri in Mols Bjerge (Hills of Mols) on the peninsula Djursland in Denmark at the entrance to The Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

In the early Bronze Ages tribal leaders and other important members of society where buried in mounds placed in coffins made from hollowed out oak tree trunks.

Each is built of up to 650.000 rectangles of turf that where cut out by hand, corresponding to 7 ha (17 acres) of peeled heath- and grass-turf per mound.

[1] The construction of Bronze Age mounds such as Stabelhøje is an undertaking that involved the work of many people using primitive pre-iron-age tools.

[2] It has been calculated that 100–150 mounds were built each year at the height of this endeavor in the early Danish Bronze Ages, 1800–500 B.C.

View from Stabelhøje, south-west, across Knebel Vig and Aarhus Bay towards Aarhus and the west coast of Jutland.
Flowering thrift at the top of the southernmost Stabelhøje. The vegetation on mounds can be special and varied, caused by a dry and warm south side, and a moist and shady north side.