A road out of the marsh At some point in the early Iron Age (500
BC – 0 AD), a road was laid in the marshlands of Ellemosen at
the foot of Tibirke Bakker in North Zealand. The road runs from
solid ground across the wetlands of Ramløse River, where two
islets reach out to each other. This… Roadway on 600 hazel
stakes Although the road is ancient, it is not the first to have
been built on this site. A more than 4,500-year-old road made of
stakes runs alongside and in some places under the Iron Age
road. In the Neolithic period, around the time of the
construction of the large passage graves, Ellemosen was a
shallow fjord connected with the Kattegat sea area. At that
time, one of the islets was a small island, and it was to this
island that a road was built from more than 600 hazel stakes.
The stakes had been sharpened and hammered into the bed of the
fjord in three rows. The stakes presumably supported several
layers of branches or a row of planks, but if so, there was no
evidence of them at the dig in 1943. Th