page_title: Agri Bavnehøj
section_title: International
hierarchical_section_title: Agri Bavnehøj / International
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Retning Knebel Vig
context_page_description: Agri Bavnehøj is a Danish hill and vista point with a bronze age burial mound, located 137 meters above sea level. It is close to the village of Agri, in Mols Bjerge National Park on the southern part of the Djursland peninsula, 40 kilometres northeast of Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus. The mound was built 1800 – 1000 years BC. Agri Bavnehøj is the least known of four vista points and burial mounds on southern Djursland, despite being the highest. The others are Stabelhøje, Trehøje and Ellemandsbjerg.
context_section_description: In the earliest part of the bronze age, tribal leaders and other important people were buried in the mounds encased in a hollowed out oak log. Often the mounds were used multiple times, with both early oak log burials and later urn burials found in the same mound. The Bronze Age in what is now Denmark was in many ways an international affair with import of copper and tin from far away for bronze production, and export of cattle. Archeologists reckon that the burials changed from coffin burials to cremation due to international influence.
  
    
  A hallmark of the turf built bronze age mounds is that a layer of metallic oxides tended to wash out from the top turf creating a hard and air tight cap isolating the inner mound from the atmosphere. This air tight lid prevents decay of the burials due to oxidation including protecting offerings accompanying the deceased inside the mounds.
caption: 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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