the daensen folding chair consists of the metallic remains of a folding chair which were discovered in 1899 in sand from a bronze age tumulus near daensen, a part of buxtehude, lower saxony, germany. the chair is the southernmost and most richly decorated example of the eighteen known folding chairs of the nordic bronze age in northern europe. the fittings, along with a reconstruction, are in the permanent exhibition of the archaeological museum hamburg in harburg, hamburg.