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The chariot equipment from Gallemose

At the end of the Stone Age (around 2000 BC) a collection of distinctive and valuable items of bronze were sacrificed in the bog Gallemosen in Djursland. These consisted of bronze axes, rings and some heavy hook-shaped mountings. The mountings may have been part of a yoke for a team drawing a light, two-wheeled chariot. The objects were found in the course of a few days in 1887 by a couple of boys who were tending cattle at Gallemosen.



You can see the find from Gallemose in room 7 of the exhibition.

Reconstruction of a Mycenaean war chariot.

You can see more axes from the Bronze Age in room 13 of the exhibition.