Hidden stories from the Prehistoric Monuments

The Bromian culture (11000-10500 BCE)

The first inhabitants on Langeland
When the last Ice Age ended about 11,700 years ago, the first hunter-gatherers followed the reindeer north. There are only a few known settlements from the earliest Mesolithic Age in Denmark, but there were two on Langeland.

→ Walk in the footsteps of the island’s first inhabitants

For thousands of years, Langeland was populated by small groups of hunter-gatherers who lived off the land.

Neolithic Age (4000 – 1700 BCE)

The hunter-gatherer culture gradually mixed with immigrant peoples from Anatolia (the Asian part of Turkey) who cultivated the land and kept livestock. The burial customs evolved into large stone tombs.

Hulbjerg Passage Grave

Stone Age life, burial customs and early surgical methods was found in Langeland's finest passage grave.

Long dolmen the Grave of King Humble

Impressive 48.5 metre long Stone Age dolmen with 77 kerbstones.

Double passage grave in Tvede Forest

One of Denmark's 29 relatively rare Neolithic double passage graves

Long dolmen at Nørreballe Inlet

Immerse yourself in the mysteries of the Stone Age in the beautiful nature of Nørreballe Inlet.

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Bronze Age (1700 - 500 BCE)

Bronze arrived from distant parts of Europe, replacing stone and flint. And grave mounds were built to bury the elite of the time.

Bronze Age barrows at Tryggelev Nor

Originally there were seven Bronze Age mounds on the small headland at Tryggelev Nor, but only three are preserved today.

The Devil’s Stone

Funen's finest rock carving from the Late Bronze Age weighs 3.5 tonnes and has more than 100 bowl signs

Cup-shaped rock carvings from the Bronze Age

The stone in Konabbe Forest with 36 cup-shaped rockcarvings is from the Bronze Age (1800 - 500 B.C.)

Golden bracelet from the Bronze Age at Tryggelev Nor

The bracelet in gold appeared in 1968 and came to Langelands Museum in 1977.

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Iron Age (500 BCE - 800) and Viking Age (800-1050)

Iron began to be mined, so people were no longer dependent on bronze. Farmers increasingly lived together in small villages. A large Iron Age cemetery with several burial mounds has been found at Stengade.

In the Viking Age power was centralised and the Danes gradually became more Christian. Many well-preserved graves from the Viking Age have been found on Langeland. Viking sailing barriers have been found in several of the Inlets.

Viking ship-formed burial in Konabbe Forest

Stone setting, shaped like the outline of a ship. May date back to the Bronze Age or Viking Age.

Small mounds in Stengade Forrest

Four low mounds from early Iron Age

Middle Ages (1000-1536) and Renaissance (1536-1660)

In the Middle Ages, around the 11th and 12th centuries, Denmark was unified as a Christian kingdom where the king ruled in cooperation with the nobility and the church.

The Renaissance saw a revival of interest in classical Greek and Roman antiquity.