Replicas of the houses built at Hjemsted Banke during the Iron Age can be found in the park. During the summer, families are able to apply to live in our houses and live life as it would have been lived in the Iron Age. Find out more under the Iron Age Holidays dropdown menu.

Nordgården is a replica of the large farm that was located at Hjemsted Banke in the late Roman Iron Age around 450 AD. The large farm is typical of the large farm culture that characterised Denmark in the second to sixth centuries. The building style with its post-built structures with lattice mud walls was the most common building style in the Iron Age.

Syltgården is a replica of a farm from found on the Wadden Sea island of Sylt/Sild around year 0. As opposed to Nordgården, this building was constructed with one-metre-thick peat walls without a supporting wooden structure.

A number of other, smaller Iron Age houses – from both the early and late Roman Iron Age – are situated around both Nordgården and Syltgården. The period 0-400. This provides an excellent, overall picture of life and customs in the Roman Iron Age in Denmark.

The smith, the leather workshop and fishing house are smaller park houses offering activities. These buildings are not exact replicas, but are buildings constructed using Iron Age construction principles, materials and methods.

Olgerdiget. An Iron Age fortress has been built between Nordgården  and Syltgården using the same principles as were used in Olgerdiget. Iron Age Denmark already employed kilometre-long fortress walls and lines to draw power lines and control traffic in the tribal culture. These fortresses were strongly inspired by the Roman Limes which were used to mark the border of the Roman Empire between the Don and the Rhine.