Weapons hidden from the Germans
Mårhøj passage grave from the Peasant Stone Age is near Kerteminde. This communal tomb, which is built of huge stones, is over 5,000 years old. It was first examined in 1868 by a local farmer's son, who added a door at the entrance. Conrad Engelhardt, an…
The patriotic archaeologist
Conrad Engelhardt (1825-1881) was one of the noteworthy Danish archaeologists of the 19th century. Throughout the 1850s and until the war with Prussia and Austria in 1864, he was in charge of the archaeological collection in Flensborg. This collection includes a number of unique Iron Age weapons from bogs in Nydam and Thorsbjerg. When war broke out, Engelhardt secretly evacuated the valuable collection to Korsør, where it lay hidden for some years until German spies revealed its location. After the war, a few objects from Nydam and Thorsbjerg were incorporated into the National Museum Collection, as they had once been part of King Frederik VII's prehistoric collection. After the war in 1864, Conrad Engelhardt was employed by the National Museum of Denmark, where he had worked as a young man under the world-renowned museum curator Christian Jürgensen Thomsen.
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Conrad Engelhardt (1825-1881) was one of the noteworthy Danish archaeologists of the 19th century. …