Smedeg�rd: A village mound from the Early Iron Age near Nors in Thy, north-west Denmark

From the time when Alexander the Great conquered the world and almost until the Romans lost theirs, a small village in Thy survived all sorts of challenges, among these climate change, opening and closing of the Limfjord estuary, and possibly wars in a location well away from the ´civilised´ world. Preserved partly by the inhabitants’ continuous use of chalk for floors and forecourts and subsequently covered by accumulating layers of sand or clay, large amounts of bones, bone tools, ceramic...