The Barons Hill is a burial mound. It has its name after Baron Wedell-Wedellsborg, who was royal forest rider over Als 1851-1862 and lived at Nygård. The round cushion is a megalith created by the funnel beaker culture from the peasant age 3500-2800 BC. The dolly is greatly disturbed, as the baron transformed the burial mound into a mound planted with a circle of linden trees, which formed a kind of gazebo. The chamber's cover was removed and the top of the hill planned. In 1946, the mound was excavated and restored by J. Raklev and Jens Raben. Raben writes on this: "The hay is of oval...

The Barons Hill is a burial mound. It has its name after Baron Wedell-Wedellsborg, who was royal forest rider over Als 1851-1862 and lived at Nygård. The round cushion is a megalith created by the funnel beaker culture from the peasant age 3500-2800 BC. The dolly is greatly disturbed, as the baron transformed the burial mound into a mound planted with a circle of linden trees, which formed a kind of gazebo. The chamber's cover was removed and the top of the hill planned. In 1946, the mound was excavated and restored by J. Raklev and Jens Raben. Raben writes on this: "The hay is of oval shape, it measures in the east-west about 18 meters, within the boulders 10 meters, in the south-north 15 meters, within the boulders 9 meters. The height is 1.5 meters. Of the 28, partly large ridge stones stood only 6 in the original place, all the others had walked out and had to be erected. In the middle of the mound there was the chamber that was dug out. Its longitudinal direction is south-north, with entrance to the south. The western side consists of a 2 meter long stone, while the east side is formed by two and the north end of one stone, all far above 1 meter high, while the entrance stone at the south end is 30 cem. lower. The chamber measures at the bottom 2.00 X 1.00 meters and is excavated at a depth of 1.10 meters. 0.95 below the surface of the side stones, there was a paving of up to 20 cm large stones. On this lay a total pile of human bones and beside a 20 cm long, beautifully formed flint spear. The grave must have been escaped and the legs set aside to make room for a new engagement. Under this layer, at a depth of 1.10 meters, there was another paving of smaller stones, on this and between the stones lay a layer of burnt flint. On this pavement there were also some human legs in the north of the chamber and on the same paving, near the threshold, lay a piece of a forehead, a lower jaw and a single leg. At a depth of 1.05 meters, only a few cm from the former, another flint blade was found, 17 cm long. In addition, there was a fragment of a third spear blade. In the north-easterly corner of the chamber, towards the endstone and on the lower pavement, there were swaths of earthenware, a few of them ornamented. The found bones are from at least three corpses, just as the two pavements originate from various additions. Under the lower paving with flint layer lying on the uncrowded bottom, there has been fire, ash layer with charcoal pieces, and the soil (clay soil) is red-burned at a depth of 5-7 cm. The finds are stored in the museum at Sønderborg Castle. Højen lies on the edge of the forest, immediately by the sea " From here you have the most wonderful view of the small islands and Funen. The old have understood to prepare their dead beautiful resting places " " The Baron's Hill Troels Trier Mørk, who was a forest guard at Nygård from 1956-1976, placed the current lintel on the burial mound, which Professor PV Glob was very reproaching and dissatisfied with. But on a later friendship visit to see the result, he said " Yes, Troels, it looks pretty nice now ". translated from: https://da.wikipedia.org/