Borum

Borum church is placed on an elevation in the south west, overlooking the village. The older Romanesque parts of the small church is built from granite ashlar. There are several stone carved decorations and church frescos in the church. A 43 x 32 cm grey granite stone with a chiselled sun cross from the Bronze Age was discovered in the 1890s, when an associated stone dyke was dismantled. It has been in possession of the National Museum of Denmark since 1902.

Northwest of the village, towards the lake of Lading Sø, is an elevated plateau overlooking the surrounding landscape, with the remains of several Bronze Age burial mounds (tumuli).^[3]

The most famous is Borum Eshøj, one of Denmark's best-known Nordic Bronze Age burial mounds.^[3][4] It contained three remarkably preserved oak coffins holding the remains of two men and a woman, together with intact clothing, daggers, combs and other grave goods dating to the 14th century BC.^[3][4][5][6]

Originally measuring about 40 metres (131 ft) in diameter and 9 metres (30 ft) high, the mound was one of the largest burial mounds in eastern Jutland before centuries of quarrying and erosion reduced its size.^[3][4]

A woman's oak-coffin burial was discovered in 1871, followed by archaeological excavations in 1875 that uncovered two further oak-coffin burials.^[3][4]

Today, the site is a protected cultural heritage monument, and a reconstructed Bronze Age settlement with replica houses is located nearby.^[3][4]

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